Small planets : Saul Bellow and the art of short fiction / edited by Gerhard Bach and Gloria L. Cronin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bach, Gerhard, 1943-

Cronin, Gloria L., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bellow, Saul--Criticism and interpretation.

Bellow, Saul.

Short story.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 381 p. )

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Back to the Beginning: A Late Look at Bellow's Early Stories / Sanford Marovitz 3

From Mosby's Memoirs to Seize the Day

Short Stories / Peter Hyland 21

Theme of Discontinuity in Saul Bellow's Fiction: "Looking for Mr. Green" and "A Father-to-Be" / David P. Demarest, Jr 31

A la recherche du texte perdu: "The Gonzaga Manuscripts" / Brigitte Scheer-Schaezler 43

Biological Draft Dodger in Bellow's "A Father-to-Be" / Richard F. Dietrich 61

Saul Bellow and the Absent Woman Syndrome: Traces of India in "Leaving the Yellow House" / Michael Austin 69

Two Women Protagonists from Bellow's Short Stories: Character Conception and Its Artistic Realization / Marianne M. Friedrich 79

Logic of the Heart: Biblical Identity and American Culture in Saul Bellow's "The Old System" / Alan Berger 93

A New Look at "The Old System" / Sanford Pinsker 103

Zapotec Man and the Torajan Granny: "Mosby's Memoirs" and the Sacrifice of the Heart / Judie Newman 113

Achievement of Saul Bellow's Seize the Day / Ralph Ciancio 127

Seize the Day: Intimations of Anti-Hasidic Satire / S. Lillian Kremer 157

Atonement in Bellow's Seize the Day / Gaye McCollum Simmons 169

Some Versions of the Real: The Novellas of Saul Bellow / Michael K. Glenday 189

Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

Farcical Combat in a Busy World / Cynthia Ozick 207

Artist-by-Artist (De)Construction: Mediated Testimony in Bellow's "Zetland: By a Character Witness" / Phillip A. Snyder 215

Self and Transcendence in "A Silver Dish" / Dieter Schulz 227

Saul Bellow's "Him with His Foot in His Mouth": Why Bellow (and Other Writers) Matter / Andrew Furman 239

Bellow's "Cousins": The Suspense of Playing It to the End / Karl F. Knight 253

Saul Bellow's Fiction of Contemplation and "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" / Jay L. Halio 257

Recent Adventures of Saul Bellow: Reflections on "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" / Alan Lelchuk 265

Recent Novellas and Stories

Love's Labors Lost: Saul Bellow's A Theft / Ben Siegel 281

Degrees of Comic Irony in A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection / Elaine B. Safer 297

Remembering and Forgetting: The Holocaust and Jewish-American Culture in Saul Bellow's The Bellarosa Connection / Alan Berger 315

Something to Remember Me By: Four Fictions of Memory / S. Lillian Kremer 329

Actual / Mark Shechner 349

Bellow's Short Fiction: Selected Bibliography / Blaine Hall 355.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-366) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-20091-2