J. D. Salinger

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 Read More...

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Understanding The Catcher in the Rye: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
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This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults.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 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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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Literary Analysis

2: Censorship of the Catcher in the Rye

3: America's Postwar Culture

4: Preparatory Schools

5: Holden Caulfield at the Movies

6: Holden Caulfield on the Analyst's Couch

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About the Authors
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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (literary criticism)
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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The Catcher in the Rye

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Editor's Note

Introduction

Arthur Heiserman and James E. Miller Jr: J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff

Donald P. Costello: The Language of the Catcher in the Rye

Clinton W. Trowbridge: The Symbolic Structure of the Catcher in the Rye

James Bryan: The Psychological Structure of the Catcher in the Rye

Kerry Mcsweeney: Salinger Revisited

Edwin Haviland Miller: In Memoriam: Allie Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye

Alan Nadel: Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony

A. Robert Lee: Flunking Everything Else Except English Anyway: Holden Caulfield, Author

Joyce Rowe: Holden Caulfield and American Protest

Dennis Mccort: Hyakujo's Geese, Amban's Doughnuts, and Rilke's Carrousel: Sources East and West for Salinger's Catcher

Stephen J. Whitfield: Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of the Catcher in the Rye

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index
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Holden Caulfield
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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Major Literary Characters

Holden Caulfield

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The Analysis of Character

Editor's Note

Introduction

Critical Extracts

Critical Essays

The Language of the Catcher in the Rye

Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield: the Situation of the Hero

On J. D. Salinger's Novel

The Saint as a Young Man

Character and Detail in the Catcher in the Rye

Allie and Phoebe

The Catcher in the Rye

"Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything"

Against Obscenity

In Memoriam: Allie Caulfield

Adlerian Theory and the Catcher in the Rye

Holden and the Cold War

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

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

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

Seymour An Introduction
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The Fiction of J. D. Salinger
by Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner. 62 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Contents

I. Introduction

II. the Long Debut:: The Apprentice Period (1940-1948)

III. All His Faculties Intact:: The Classic Period (1948-1951)

IV. Seen Through The Glass Family, Darkly:: Religion Through Satire

V. Conclusion: The Way of a Pilgrim

VI. Footnotes

VII. Bibliography
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"The Holy Refusal": A Vedantic Interpretation of J.D. Salinger's Silence, in MELUS
by Dipti R. Pattanaik. 15 pgs.

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Salinger's Nine Stories: Fifty Years Later, in The Antioch Review
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)
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Introduction

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Part I: Thematic Essays

The American Short Story Cycle

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The American Short Story, 1807–1900

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The African American Short Story

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The Asian American Short Story

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The Chicano-Latino Short Story

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The Ecological Short Story

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Lesbian and Gay Short Stories

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The Native American Short Story

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Non-English American Short Stories

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The American Working-Class Short Story

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American Short Stories of the Holocaust

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Part II: Individual Writers and Their Work

Alice Adams (1926–1999)

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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

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James Baldwin (1924–1987)

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John Earth (1930– )

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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

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Rick Bass (1959– )

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Richard Bausch (1945– )

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Charles Baxter (1947– )

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Ann Beattie (1947– )

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Saul Bellow (1915– )

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Gina Berriault (1926– )

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Doris Betts (1932– )

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Paul Bowles (1910–1999)

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Kay Boyle (1902–1992)

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Ray Bradbury (l920– )

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Kate Braverman (1950– )

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Larry Brown (1951– )

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Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987)

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Hortense Calisher (1911– )

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Truman Capote (1924–1984)

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Raymond Carver (1938–1988)

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Willa Gather (1873–1947)

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John Cheever (1912–1982)

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Sandra Cisneros (1954– )

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971)

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930– )

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Robert Coover (1932– )

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Lydia Davis (1947– )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953– )

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Andre Dubus (1936–1999)

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Deborah Eisenberg (1946– )

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Stanley Elkin (1930–1995)

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George P. Elliott (1918–1980)

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John Fante (1909–1983)

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James T. Farrell (1904–1979)

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William Faulkner (1897–1962)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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Richard Ford (1944– )

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Mary Gaitskill (1954– )

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William H. Gass (1924– )

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Ellen Gilchrist (1935– )

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Herbert Gold (1924– )

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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Amy Hempel (1951– )

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Mary Hood (1946– )

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Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

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Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)

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Jamaica Kincaid (1949– )

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Ring Lardner (1885–1933)

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David Leavitt (1961– )

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Ursula K. le Guin (1929– )

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Meridel le Sueur (1900–1996)

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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944– )

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Jack London (1876–1916)

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David Wong Louie (1954– )

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Norman Mailer (1923– )

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Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

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Bobbie Ann Mason (1940– )

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Mary Mccarthy (1912–1989)

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Elizabeth Mccracken (1966– )

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Carson Mccullers (1917–1967)

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Thomas Mcguane (1939– )

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James Alan Mcpherson (1943– )

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Nicholasa Mohr (1938– )

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Lorrie Moore (1957– )

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Toshio Mori (1910–1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee (1940– )

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

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Joyce Carol Gates (1938– )

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Tim O Brien (1946– )

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Flannery O Connor (1925–1964)

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John O Kara (1905–1970)

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Tillie Olsen (1913?– )

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Simon Ortiz (1941– )

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Cynthia Ozick (1928– )

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Grace Paley (1922– )

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Americo Paredes (1915–1999)

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

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Jayne Anne Phillips (1952– )

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

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William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862–1910)

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Annie Proulx (1935– )

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Thomas Pynchon (1937– )

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953)

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Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952– )

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Philip Roth (1933– )

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Damon Runyon (1880–1946)

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J. D. Salinger (1919– )

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Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996)

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William Saroyan (1908–1981)

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Delmore Schwartzs (1913–1966)

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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )

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Jean Stafford (1915–1979)

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Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)

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John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

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Elizabeth Tallent (1954– )

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Peter Taylor (1917–1994)

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James Thurber (1894–1961)

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John Updike (1932– )

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Helena María Viramontes (1954– )

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Anna Lee Walters (1946– )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

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Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953– )

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Eudora Welty (1909– )

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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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Joy Williams (1944– )

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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)

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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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Tobias Wolff (1945– )

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Richard Wright (1908–1960)

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Hisaye Yamamoto (1921– )

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

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

1: Notes on the American Muse as Psyche

2: Herman Melville

3: Henry James

4: Stephen Crane

5: Robert Frost

6: William Faulkner

7: J. D. Salinger

8: The Paving Stones of Paris: Association from Poe to the Present

Notes

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10 .

A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Salinger, J. D. (1919-)" begins on p. 414)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Foreword

Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
11 .

Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature ("The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger (1951)" begins on p. 47)
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 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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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cult Classics

Against Nature (A Rebours)

Animal Farm

Another Roadside Attraction

Axel

Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to Me

The Bell Jar

Brave New World

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

A Clockwork Orange

The Day of the Locust

Demian

Dune

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Fountainhead

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The Great Gatsby

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Killer Inside Me

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lolita

Look Homeward, Angel

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings

Lost Horizon

Lucky Jim

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

On the Road

The Outsider

The Outsiders

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

René

A Separate Peace

Siddhartha

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers)

The Stand

Steppenwolf

The Stranger

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Sun Also Rises

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

This Side of Paradise

Time and Again

Trout Fishing in America

2001: A Space Odyssey

Walden Two

Warlock

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Chronological Listing of Cult Fiction

Works Cited

Bibliography of Primary Works: First and Current Editions

Books for Further Reading

Index

About the Author
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Reclaiming Literature: A Teacher's Dilemma ("The Catcher in the Rye" begins on p. 96)
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 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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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

1: The Author's Viewpoint

2: Author as Narrator

3: Narrator as Author: The Surrogate I""

4: Narrator as Author: The Separate L""

5: Author or Narrator?

6: Afterthoughts

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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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")
by June Edwards. 154 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: The Censorship Debate Regarding Public Schools

1: The Debate Over Government and Religion

2: The Debate Over Humanism and Democracy

3: The Debate Over the Purpose of Teaching Literature

4: The Debate Over Biblical Interpretation

5: The Debate Over Morality in Literature

II: Religion and Morality in Selected Challenged Literature

6: Religion and Morality in Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

7: Religion and Morality in the Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

8: Religion and Morality in of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

9: Religion and Morality in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10: Religion and Morality in the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

11: Religion and Morality in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

III: Suggestions for Preventing and Responding to Challenges

12: Suggestions for Preventing and Responding to Challenges

Appendix A: Sources for Preventing and Responding to Challenges

Appendix B: Sample "Request for Reconsideration"

Appendix C: Organizations against Censorship

References

Author Index

Index
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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")
by Alan Nadel. 336 pgs.

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New Americanists

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Straight Story and the Dual Nature

1. Appearance, Containment, And Atomic Power

2. History, Science, And Hiroshima

II: Containment Culture

3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony

4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments As Cold War "Epic"

5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and The Domestic Playboy

Part III: Double or Nothing

6: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs And Liberty Valance

7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and The Free Speech Movement

Part IV: Two Nations Too

8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity In the Work of John A. Williams

9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian

Coda: Democracy

10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and The Story of Democracy

Conclusion

Index
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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
by Yasuhiro Takeuchi. 17 pgs.

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