The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger

Dewey, Joseph, 1957- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781587658211 (set for Critical insights : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781587658372 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-345) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On the catcher in the rye : an American koan / Joseph Dewey -- Salinger and Holden, disappearing in plain sight : biography of J.D. Salinger / David Klingenberger -- The Paris review perspective / David Matthews for The Paris review -- Catching Holden through a cultural studies lens / Robert Miltner -- Holden at sixty : reading Catcher after the age of irony / Jeff Pruchnic -- The catcher in the rye : "Paul's case" in anticipation of Holden Caulfield / Matthew Evertson -- Critical mass : Holden among the critics / Jill Rollins -- Memories of Holden Caulfield--and of Miss Greenwood / Carl Freedman -- J.D. Salinger, novelist of modern anomie, dead at 91 / Tom Teicholz -- J.D. Salinger / Adam Gopnik -- "Holden Caulfield in Doc Martens" : The catcher in the rye and my so-called life / Barbara Bell -- Holden Caulfield's legacy / David Castronovo -- The catcher in the rye and all : is the age of formative books over? / Sanford Pinsker -- Cherished and cursed : toward a social history of The catcher in the rye / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Reviewers, critics, and The catcher in the rye / Carol and Richard Ohmann -- Catcher in and out of history / James E. Miller, Jr. -- On first looking into Chapman's Holden : speculations on a murder / Daniel M. Stashower -- The language of The catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello -- The saint as a young man : a reappraisal of The catcher in the rye / Jonathan Baumbach -- In memoriam : Allie Caulfield in The catcher in the rye / Edwin Haviland Miller -- Symbolic resolution in The catcher in the rye : the cap, the carrousel, and the American West / Kermit Vanderbilt -- The burning carousel and the carnivalesque : subversion and transcendence at the close of The catcher in the rye / Yasuhiro Takeuchi.