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.
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