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Title:

J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Edition:

New ed.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 215 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Salinger, J. D.--(Jerome David),--1919-2010.--Catcher in the rye.
Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character)
Runaway teenagers in literature.
Teenage boys in literature.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.

Contents:

Editor's note -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Rhetoric, sanity, and the Cold War : the significance of Holden Caulfield's testimony / Alan Nadel -- "The world was all before them" : coming of age in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep not, child and J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye / Sandra W. Lott, Steven Latham -- Go West, my son / Sanford Pinsker -- Hyakujo's geese, Amban's doughnuts and Rilke's carrousel : sources East and West for Salinger's Catcher/ Dennis McCort -- Cherished and cursed : toward a social history of The catcher in the rye / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The catcher in the rye as postwar American fable / Pamela Hunt Steinle -- Holden Caulfield's legacy / David Castronovo -- The boy that had created the disturbance : reflections on minor characters in life and The catcher in the rye / John McNally -- Holden Caulfield : a love story / Jane Mendelsohn -- Catcher in the corn : J. D. Salinger and Shoeless Joe / Dennis Cutchins -- Mentor Mori ; or, Sibling society and the Catcher in the Bly / Robert Miltner -- Memories of Holden Caulfield--and of Miss Greenwood / Carl Freedman -- The Zen archery of Holden Caulfield / Yasuhiro Takeuchi -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

A collection of essays examining The catcher in the rye, one of the most popular coming-of-age novels ever written.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

ISBN:

1604131837 (alk. paper)
9781604131833 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)263498260

LCCN:

2008045784

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)