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Tables of Contents for Critical Essays on William Saroyan
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Editor's Note
vii
Publisher's Note
ix
Preface
xi
Harry Keyishian
Introduction: Saroyan and His Critics
1
34
Alice K. Barter
REVIEWS
Yea-Sayer {Review of Inhale and Exhale}
35
3
T. S. Matthews
New Abundance {Review of The Time of Your Life}
38
2
Stark Young
The Boys in the Back Room: William Saroyan {Review of The Trouble With Tigers}
40
4
Edmund Wilson
Saroyan's War {Review of The Adventures of Wesley Jackson}
44
3
Harrison Smith
Saroyan's New Mixture {Review of The Assyrian and Other Stories}
47
2
Whit Burnett
Look, Mom, No Hands {Review of The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills}
49
2
Whit Burnett
The Time of His Life {Review of Places Where I've Done Time}
51
6
Harry Keyishian
ARTICLES
William Saroyan in California
57
8
Margaret Bedrosian
William Saroyan and the Theatre of Transformation
65
7
James H. Justus
Whitman and Saroyan: Singing the Song of America
72
9
Dickran Kouymjian
Saroyan, Stein, and Language in Motion
81
5
Edward Halsey Foster
Saroyan's Study of Ethnicity
86
10
Walter Shear
William Saroyan: Romantic Existentialist
96
9
Thelma J. Shinn
Joe as Christ-Type in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life
105
19
Kenneth W. Rhoads
The Time of Your Life: ``A Figment in a Nightmare of an Idiot''
124
10
Robert G. Everding
``What. What-not.'' Absurdity in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life
134
14
John A. Mills
William Saroyan and the Autobiographical Pact: A Look at His Last Published Book, Obituaries
148
9
Lorne Shirinian
{Saroyan and the Armenian Past}
157
12
Harold Aram Veeser
The Unforgettable and the Ordinary in Saroyan's Last ``Voyald''
169
8
Walter Cummins
Not Dying: Theme in Saroyan's Memoirs
177
12
Walter Shear
Index
189