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Tables of Contents for American Literary Dimensions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prefaces: Recollections
A Letter to Melvin
11
4
Ben Siegel
Melvin Friedman, Dead
15
2
Ihab Hassan
A Student Remembers
17
4
Sidney Krome
Introduction
21
10
Jay L. Halio
Ben Siegel
Part I: Poems
``Tents''
31
1
Jim Chapson
``Visiting Spring Hill Cemetery''
32
1
Peter J. Whalen
``Villanelle''
33
1
James Ragan
``A Visit to the Balzac Museum''
34
5
James Liddy
Part II: Essays in American Literature
Anzia Yezierska's Unwritten Novel
39
26
Blanche Gelfant
``Torches of Fury'': The Correspondence of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
65
16
Jackson R. Bryer
Hemingway's ``A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'': Some Notes on American Influences
81
10
Richard Allan Davison
Hemingway's In Our Time and the Unknown Genre: The Short Story Cycle
91
8
James Nagel
The Aesthetics of Survival: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio
99
13
John B. Vickery
Delmore Schwartz's Primal Screen
112
6
Irving Malin
Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Bernard Malamud's Blacks and Jews
118
10
Steven G. Kellman
Arthur Miller's Broken Jews
128
8
Jay L. Halio
A Disrupting Darkness Before His Eyes: The Racial Subject in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
136
9
Gloria L. Cronin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up
145
10
Ben Siegel
Jewish Autobiographies and the Counter-Example of Philip Roth
155
13
Mark Krupnick
The Tragicomic in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
168
15
Elaine Safer
Part III: Essays on Sports
Real Heroes, Sports Heroes, and American Culture
183
13
Daniel Walden
A Forgotten Baseball Classic: Owen Johnson's The Humming Bird
196
6
Samuel I. Bellman
Diamonds in the Rough: Three Tales of a Ballclub's Death
202
15
Jerome Klinkowitz
Notes on Contributors
217
4
Index
221