J.D. Salinger
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Salinger, J. D. 1919-  -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Current criticisms of Salinger--one is on his heroes, another concerns his interest in Zen Buddhism, etc.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 139-140.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: J.D. Salinger, Seventy eight bananas / William Wiegand; title: J.D. Salinger, "everybody's favorite" / Alfred Kazin; title: The love ethic / David D. Galloway; title: Epilogue to "Seymour, an introduction" / Max F. Schulz; title: J.D. Salinger's Holden and Seymour and the spiritual activist hero / Helen Weinberg; title: Zen and Nine stories / Bernice Goldstein and Sanford Goldstein; title: A retrospective look at The catcher in the rye / Gerald Rosen; title: Sergeant X, Esmé, and the meaning of words / John Wenke; title: J.D. Salinger's religious pluralism / Dennis L. O'Connor.