The Catcher in the Rye
Subtitle: New Essays
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780820457291
Subjects: Drama; Literary Criticism; (Jerome David),; 1919-; Catcher in the rye; Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious; Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character); Runaway teenagers in literature; Salinger, J. D; Teenage boys in literature
Genres: novel
First sentence: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where and when I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it.
Description: "The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging from the examination of the intertextual relationship between The Catcher in the Rye and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, to the evaluation of Salinger's mythic place in American film and popular culture, to the interrogation of what it means for a reader to claim that a novel such as The Catcher in the Rye has changed his or her life.

These essays provide new commentary and new insights and demonstrate the continuing relevance of Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, and Holden Caulfield to American culture and literature, and, in turn, to American cultural and literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.