J.D. Salinger's short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604132724
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Seymour: a clarification / Gordon E. Slethaug; title: Seymour's suicide again: a new reading of J. D. Salinger's "A perfect day for bananafish" / Gary Lane; title: A cloister of reality: the Glass family / James Lundquist; title: Salinger criticism and "The laughing man": a case of arrested development / Richard Allan Davison; title: Sergeant X, Esmé, and the meaning of words / John Wenke; title: J. D. Salinger's religious pluralism: the example of Raise high the roof beam; title: Carpenters / Dennis L. O'Connor; title: "Along this road goes no one": Salinger's "Teddy" and the failure of love / Anthony Kaufman; title: New light on the nervous breakdowns of Salinger's Sergeant X and Seymour Glass / Eberhard Alsen; title: Salinger's nine stories: fifty years later / Dominic Smith