Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West, Nathanael, 1903-1940. Miss Lonelyhearts.

West, Nathanael.

Physical Description:

vii, 177 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2005]

Summary:

While a very short novel might be easy to overlook, Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) has been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby. One of the few titles written by West, who died in a car crash at age 37, Miss Lonelyhearts was published when he was only 30 and is seen as his masterpiece. In its pages, a newspaper's money-making venture-the addition of an advice column-pulls us into a world of nihilistic despair, as we follow the life of the man appointed to reply to the seemingly hopeless letters of a lost and ill-educated public still grappling for answers.

Contents:

The religious masquerade : Miss Lonelyhearts / Kingsley Widmer

Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts / Mark Conroy

The ritual icon / Douglas Robinson

Miss Lonelyhearts : the absurd center of the dead world / Robert Emmet Long

Inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering : a reply to the correspondence in Miss Lonelyhearts / John Keyes

Miss Lonelyhearts and the rhetoric of disintegration / Robert Wexelblatt

Shrike as the modernist anti-hero in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts / Beverly J. Jones

Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts : the waste land rescripted / Miriam Fuchs

Saints and lovers : Miss Lonelyhearts in the tradition / Richard P. Lynch

The desert, the lamb, the cross : debased iconography in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts / Marian E. Crowe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791081230

OCLC:

56920449