The Critical Response to Saul Bellow, Vol. 20
Though one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, Saul Bellow has continually elicited conflicting responses from critics. Some critics have seen him as America's greatest contemporary writer, while others have discounted him as discouragingly redundant. Not even his novel Herzog, generally considered his worthiest achievement, has gone unchallenged. The expansion of critical theory in the last decade has added to the controversy over Bellow's works.\ The reviews and...
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Gathers the best critical writings on Saul Bellow and allows the reader to trace the critical response to Bellow's career from the 1940s to the 1990s.BooknewsA collection spanning almost half a century of Bellow criticism, from the publication of Dangling Man (1944) to Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (1990). The only parameters for selection were to connect, in each individual case, reviews with critical essays, and where feasible, to combine immediate responses (early reviews) with more distanced critical perspectives and revisions. Includes a chronology, an introduction, and a guide to bibliographies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsChronologyIntroduction1Dangling Man (1944)Introducing an Important New Writer11A Man in His Time12Dangling Man: Saul Bellow's Lyrical Experiment14From Dangling Man to "Colonies of the Spirit"23The Victim (1947)Anti-Semitism Hits a Jew29Among the Fallen30Saul Bellow's The Victim32The Holocaust in The Victim41The Adventures of Augie March (1953)Portrait of an American, Chicago-Born47The Man With No Commitments49The New American Adam in Augie March52Looking Back at Augie March62Seize the Day (1956)The Discovered Self68Bellow Comes of Age70Running Contrary Ways: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day73Empathy and Self-Validation in Bellow's Seize the Day83Henderson the Rain King (1959)The Search for Salvation100Henderson's Bellow102Life Against Death in Henderson the Rain King107Saul Bellow's Henderson as America119Herzog (1964)Bellow the Brain King125Hurtsog, Hairtsog, Heart's Hog?129Moses-Bloom-Herzog: Bellow's Everyman133"Weirdly Tranquil" Vision: The Point of View of Moses Herzog145Plays (1954, 1965)Saul Bellow on the Drag Strip152The "Mental Comedies" of Saul Bellow154Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)Mr. Sammler's Planet169Though He Slay Me174Bellow on Modernism177Mr. Sammler's Planet: Wells, Hitler, and the World State181Humboldt's Gift (1975)A Higher Selfishness?194Humboldt's Gift: A New Bellow?203Gender and Self-Deception in Humboldt's Gift210To Jerusalem and Back (1976)Unsentimental Journey218In Defiance of Reason: Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back223The Dean's December (1982)An Interview with Saul Bellow234A Winter's Tale247The Dean's December250The Dean's December: "A Companion Piece to Mr. Sammler's Planet"252Saul Bellow's "Visionary Project"260Short Fiction: Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984)The Rhetoric of Bellow's Short Fiction271On Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories282More Die of Heartbreak (1987)More Die of Heartbreak293The Headache of Explanation295A Contemporary Fall: More Die of Heartbreak298A Theft (1989)Less Brains, Better Legs312It Doesn't Ring True314Bellow's A Theft: The Human Pair in "Gogmagogsville"318The Bellarosa Connection (1989)Memory in America327Memory and the Holocaust: Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Bellarosa Connection334"Something to Remember Me By" (1990)Something to Remember Him By?345Choosing to Read the Text348A Guide to Bibliographies357Index359
\ BooknewsA collection spanning almost half a century of Bellow criticism, from the publication of Dangling Man (1944) to Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (1990). The only parameters for selection were to connect, in each individual case, reviews with critical essays, and where feasible, to combine immediate responses (early reviews) with more distanced critical perspectives and revisions. Includes a chronology, an introduction, and a guide to bibliographies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
