Saul Bellow / editor, Allan Chavkin, Texas State University-San Marcos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chavkin, Allan Richard, 1950- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Saul Bellow

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bellow, Saul--Criticism and interpretation.

Bellow, Saul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 360 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Saul Bellow. A chronology of Bellow's life, a complete list of Bellow's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Contents:

About this volume / Allan Chavkin

Career, life, and influence

On Saul Bellow / Allan Chavkin

Biography of Saul Bellow / Victoria Aarons

The Paris review perspective / Natalie Jacoby for the Paris review

Critical contexts. Psychology and the fiction of Saul Bellow / Andrew M. Gordon

Saul Bellow : the cultural and historical context / Judie Newman

The Holocaust and history in Bellow and Malamud / Daniel Fuchs

Saul Bellow : the critical reception / Gloria l. Cronin

Critical readings. Exhausting ennui : Bellow, Dostoevsky, and the literature of boredom / Jean-François Leroux

The double vision : The victim by Saul Bellow / Jonathan Baumbach

Saul Bellow : The adventures of Augie March / Donald Pizer

"The Hollywood thread" and the first draft of Saul Bellow's Seize the day / Allan Chavkin

The fifties novels : The adventures of Augie March, Seize the day, and Henderson the rain king / Malcolm Bradbury

"Weirdly tranquil" vision : the point of view of Moses Herzog / Gilbert Porter

The Holocaust in Mr. Sammler's planet / S. Lillian Kremer

"Farcical martyrs" and "deeper thieves" in Bellow's Humboldt's gift / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin

The dean's december / Robert F. Kiernan

On Him with his foot in his mouth and other stories / Daniel Fuchs

A contemporary fall : more die of heartbreak / Ellen Pifer

Saul bellow's Ravelstein and the graying of American humor / Sarah Blacher Cohen

Koheleth in Chicago : the quest for the real in "looking for Mr. Green" / Eusebio l. Rodrigues

Shame and Saul Bellow's "Something to remember me by" / Andrew Gordon

Resources

Chronology of Saul Bellow's life

Works by Saul Bellow.

Notes:

Includes four new essays commissioned especially for this volume as well as fourteen previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613665744

9781280688805

1280688807

9781587658778

1587658771

OCLC:

763210141