Title: Radical sophistication; studies in contemporary Jewish-American novelists
Authors: Schulz, Max F.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Year: 1969
Subjects: Fiedler, Leslie A.; Wallant, Edward Lewis, Criticism and interpretation.; Friedman, Bruce Jay,; Malamud, Bernard Criticism and interpretation.; West, Nathanael, History and criticism.; Mailer, Norman Criticism and interpretation.; Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Criticism and interpretation.; Salinger, J. D. Criticism and interpretation.; Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Criticism and interpretation.; Salinger, J. D. Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction Jewish authors History and criticism; American fiction History and criticism; Judaism and literature United States History; Jews United States Intellectual life.; Jewish fiction History and criticism.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature
Contents: The 'Jewish-American school' of novelists -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Radical sophistication and the Jewish-American novel -- The new mannerists -- Nathanael West's 'desperate detachment' -- Bernard Malamud's mystic proletarians -- [Norman Mailer's divine comedy] -- Advertisements for myself & the presidential papers : testaments I -- Barbary Shore : purgatory -- The deer park : hell -- An American dream : paradise -- Cannibals and christians : testaments II -- [Saul Bellow and the burden of selfhood] -- The head and the heart -- The group and the individual -- Character and narrative -- [Leslie A. Fiedler and the hieroglyphs of life] America : Ares and Eros -- Rome : metamorphoses of Stone -- China : philoprogenitive in perpetuity -- The wild west : Jew, spade, wasp -- [Edward Lewis Wallant and Bruce Jay Friedamn : the glory and the agony of life] -- The polarities of love -- Edward Lewis Wallant -- Bruce Jay Friedman -- The polarities of love : Ut Poesis -- [J.D. Salinger and the crisis of consciousness] -- Prolegomena to Franny, et al. -- Epilogue to Seymour : an introduction, et al.