| Description |
xxvi, 353 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 333-338. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. In the Jewish tradition?: The Jewish literary tradition / Earl H. Rovit -- Women, children, and idiots first: transformation psychology / Samuel Irving Bellman -- Jewishness as metaphor / Robert Alter -- pt. 2. Myth, ritual, folklore: The natural: world Ceres / Earl R. Wasserman -- Four versions of pastoral / James M. Mellard -- The loathly ladies / Edwin M. Eigner -- Myth inside and out: The natural / Frederick W. Turner, III -- pt. 3. Varied approaches: Victims in motion: the sad and bitter clowns / Ben Siegel -- The scope of caricature / Sam Bluefarb -- Comic vision and the theme of identity / Mark Goldman -- The new romanticism / Charles Alva Hoyt -- Mythic proletarians / Max F. Schulz -- pt. 4. Specific novels and stories: The assistant: The qualified encounter / Ihab Hassan ; Culture conflict / Walter Shear ; The complex pattern of redemption / Peter L. Hays -- A new life: The old life and the new / Theodore Solotaroff ; The sadness of goodness / Marcus Klein ; Ironic affirmation / Ruth B. Mandel -- The fixer: History and imagination -two views of the Beiliss Case / Maurice Friedberg ; The hero as schnook / Alan Warren Friedman -- The magic barrel: The stories / Sidney Richman. |
| Subject |
Malamud, Bernard -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Field, Joyce W., compilor.
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| ISBN |
081472552X |
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