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Salinger, J. D. - (Jerome David Salinger)sălˈĭnjər, 1919–, American novelist and short-story writer, b. New York City. Salinger depicts the loneliness and frustration of individuals caught in a world of banalities and restricting conformity. His best-known work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), is a picaresque novel that describes the adventures of a schoolboy at

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Understanding The Catcher in the Rye: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents » Read Now
by Sanford Pinsker, Ann Pinsker. 173 pgs.

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This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults. In addition to a literary analysis, this casebook acquaints students with the larger world...
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This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults. In addition to a literary analysis, this casebook acquaints students with the larger world in which Holden Caulfield moves: Hollywood films, Broadway plays, and jazz musicians. It also presents a detailed account of the censorship challenges to the novel, and provides primary documents on child development and psychology that illuminate Holden's contradictory behavior.
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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 169 pgs.

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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Holden Caulfield » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour--An Introduction » Read Now
by J. D. Salinger. 248 pgs.

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...Roof Beam, Carpenters AND Seymour An Introduction J. D. SALINGER Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters AND Seymour...LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1955, 1959, BY J. D...
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The Fiction of J. D. Salinger » Read Now
by Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner. 62 pgs.

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...THE FICTION OF J. D. SALINGER Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph...originals --a gap that is filled by J. D. Salinger. Finally -- and most importantly...We end as we began...
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"The Holy Refusal": A Vedantic Interpretation of J.D. Salinger's Silence, in MELUS » Read Now
by Dipti R. Pattanaik. 15 pgs.

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Salinger's Nine Stories: Fifty Years Later, in The Antioch Review » Read Now
by Dominic Smith. 12 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("J. D. Salinger (1919-)" begins on p. 494) » Read Now
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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A Certain Morbidness: A View of American Literature (Chap. 7 "J. D. Salinger") » Read Now
by Edward Stone. 186 pgs.

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...4 Stephen Crane 53 5 Robert Frost 70 6 William Faulkner 85 7 J. D. Salinger 121 8 The Paving Stones of Paris: 140 Index 179 Introduction The...
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Salinger, J. D. (1919-)" begins on p. 414) » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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...indeed that of the rebellious son, but of the suffering, the tormented, and the conforming son. To use the phraseology of Salinger, this hero is the good boy, the sad sack;...
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature ("The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger (1951)" begins on p. 47) » Read Now
by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first...
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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.
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Reclaiming Literature: A Teacher's Dilemma ("The Catcher in the Rye" begins on p. 96) » Read Now
by William A. Glasser. 180 pgs.

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Seven classic American novels are examined in Reclaiming Literature: Moby Dick, The Portrait of a Lady, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Turn of the Screw, The Red Badge of Courage, A Farewell to Arms, and The Catcher in the Rye. Each of these has brought forth persisting controversies from the...
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Seven classic American novels are examined in Reclaiming Literature: Moby Dick, The Portrait of a Lady, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Turn of the Screw, The Red Badge of Courage, A Farewell to Arms, and The Catcher in the Rye. Each of these has brought forth persisting controversies from the time of initial publication. This book gives literature teachers the means to resolve these and other critical conflicts by focusing on how each author has crafted his material to control his reader's responses.
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Opposing Censorship in the Public Schools: Religion, Morality, and Literature (Chap. 7 "Religion and Morality in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger") » Read Now
by June Edwards. 154 pgs.

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...Religion and Morality in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 72 8 Religion and Morality in Of Mice and Men...science fiction and fantasy. The Catcher in the Rye by J...
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Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Chap. 3 "Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony") » Read Now
by Alan Nadel. 336 pgs.

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...CONTAINMENT CULTURE NEW AMERICANISTS A Series Edited by Donald E. Pease CONTAINMENT CULTURE American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age Alan...
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The Burning Carousel and the Carnivalesque: Subversion and Transcendence at the Close of the Catcher in the Rye, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Yasuhiro Takeuchi. 17 pgs.

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