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Malamud, Bernard - mălˈəməd, 1914–86, American author, b. New York City, grad. B.A., College of the City of New York, 1936, M.A., Columbia Univ., 1942. His works reflect a concern with Jewish tradition and the nobility of the humble man. The Fixer (1966; Pulitzer Prize), set in czarist Russia, reveals the courage of a handyman falsely accused by the government of

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)" begins on p. 353) » Read Now
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Bernard Malamud" begins on p. 252) » Read Now
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from...
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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s (Chap. 6 "From Shlemiel to Mentsh: Bernard Malamud") » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 208 pgs.

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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full...
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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel (Chap. 5 "The Schlemiel as Moral Bungler: Bernard Malamud's Ironic Heroes") » Read Now
by Sanford Pinsker. 202 pgs.

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...Schlemiel as Moral Bungler: Bernard Malamud's Ironic Heroes 77...of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow made sense...from the following titles by...
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No! In Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature ("Malamud: The Commonplace as Absurd" begins on p. 101) » Read Now
by Leslie A. Fiedler. 340 pgs.

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...Grandgent remarks, though he finally dismisses the hypothesis . The others would make her variously the Virgin Mary, whom St. Bernard had called " pietra ," or Divine...
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Isaac's Arithmetic: A Note on Malamud's "Idiots First," in ANQ » Read Now
by Earle V. Bryant. 4 pgs.

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...Idiots First" Throughout Bernard Malamuds exquisitely crafted short story...article "The Tree-Clock in Bernard Malamuds Idiots First," Studies in...CITED Abramson, Edward...
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Racial Conflict and Multiculturalism: Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants," in MELUS » Read Now
by Edmund Spevack. 24 pgs.

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Plenty of News: Bernard Malamud's 'The Letter,' in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Lawrence M. Lasher. 10 pgs.

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Contemporary American Novelists ("Bernard Malamud and the New Romanticism" begins on p. 65) » Read Now
by Harry T. Moore. 238 pgs.

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...Hoyt, author of the chapter on Bernard Malamud, teaches at Bennett College...Herbert Gold, Robert Gover, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, and others...McCullers to J. D...
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Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon, in Critique » Read Now
by Peter Freese. 14 pgs.

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...Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas...and informational entropy. Bernard Malamud Gods Grace ( 1982 ), Kurt...Exploring the Post-Apocalypse:...
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Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome (Chap. 13 "Glass Menageries: The Venice of Hecht and Malamud") » Read Now
by Michael L. Ross. 314 pgs.

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The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A wealth of writing on each is examined in fiction and poetry of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors...
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The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A wealth of writing on each is examined in fiction and poetry of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors. The analysis points to Florence frequently being depicted in terms of binary oppositions, such as past versus present, stasis versus movement, and light versus darkness. Venetian narratives commonly are infused with motifs relating to dream and unreality, obsession, voyeurism, isolation, melancholia, and death. History, combined with the motif of change, is a controlling metaphor for Roman fiction and poetry. In a wider theoretical framework, this writing is analyzed for the light shed on the issue of the significance of setting in literature.
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Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960's (Chap. IV "Christ as Revolutionary/Revolutionary as Christ: The Hero in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner") » Read Now
by Sanford Pinsker. 139 pgs.

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Pinsker identifies the literary trends that dominated the decade and focuses upon authors who came into prominence during this period.
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Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis ("Updike, Malamud, and the Fire This Time" begins on p. 233) » Read Now
by Robert Alter. 266 pgs.

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...of towering genius tries to cast Mandelstam in English rhyme or to reproduce his word-play is painfully illustrated by Bernard Mearess attempts in Modern Poetry in...
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Phoenix from the Ashes: The Literature of the Remade World (Chap. 15 "Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban: Manipulating the Apocalypse") » Read Now
by Carl B. Yoke. 252 pgs.

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This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the...
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This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the editor contends, literally permits the exploration of many sub-topics, such as rebirth, social patterns, evolution, devolution, entropy, history, ecology, ethics, medicine, personal values, and so on.
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The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts ("Dolorous Strokes, or, Balin at the Bat: Malamud, Malory, and Chretien" begins on p. 103) » Read Now
by Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn, Csilla Bertha. 314 pgs.

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The 25 essays in this collection represent the best contributions to the Tenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and reflect contemporary criticism of the fantastic including both theory and practice. Some of the writers considered in this volume are Stephen King, Doris Lessing...
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The 25 essays in this collection represent the best contributions to the Tenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and reflect contemporary criticism of the fantastic including both theory and practice. Some of the writers considered in this volume are Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James and Ray Bradbury. The book also critiques television personalities, film directors, and German and Hungarian visual artists. The essays probe the essential theme of the fantastic: the testing of the limits of civilization as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Malamud, Bernard (1914-)" begins on p. 315) » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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...A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM Modern American Literature Compiled and edited by DOROTHY NYREN Librarian, Concord Free Public...