New essays on the Catcher in the Rye / edited by Jack Salzman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Salzman, Jack.

Series:

American novel

The American novel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010. Catcher in the rye.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 118 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Summary:

First published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the novel's composition and publication, the mixed reception it has received from critics and scholars, the arguments surrounding the attempts at censorship, and its position in a postmodernist literary world. The essays that follow focus on various aspects of the novel: its ideology within the context of the cold war, its portrait of a particular subculture within American society, its account of patterns of adolescent crisis, and its rich and complex narrative structure.

Contents:

2 Holden in the Museum / John Seelye 23

3 Holden's Museum Pieces: Narrator and Nominal Audience in The Catcher in the Rye / Michael Cowan 35

4 Pencey Preppy: Cultural Codes in The Catcher in the Rye / Christopher Brookeman 57

5 Holden Caulfield and American Protest / Joyce Rowe 77

6 Love and Death in The Catcher in the Rye / Peter Shaw 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118).

ISBN:

0521374421

0521377986

OCLC:

24247229