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Author Aarons, Victoria

Title Bernard Malamud : a centennial tribute / Victoria Aarons, Gustavo Sanchez Canales
Published Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; "Bernard Malamud, Person and Writer" by Paul Malamud; "Mediterranean" by Paul Malamud; Part I.U.S. Voices; Introduction: "Moved by a Memory": Bernard Malamud's Literary Landscape; Novels; 1. The Beard Makes the Man: Bernard Malamud's A New Life; 2. "I Shit My Death": From the Providential to the Excremental in The Fixer; 3. The Jew as Vampire in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer; 4. Malamud's The Tenants and the Problem of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel; 5. Unbound and Un-bodied: Reading Race in Malamud's The Tenants; Short Stories
6. Midrash, Memory, and "Miracles or Near-Miracles": Bernard Malamud's All-Too-Human ProjectPart II. European Voices; Introduction: Encountering Bernard Malamud through an I-Thou Relationship; Novels; 7. Rethinking the Discourse of Suffering in Bernard Malamud's Fiction; 8. "What's in a Name?": Aptronyms and Archetypes in Bernard Malamud's The Assistant and The Fixer; 9. Fixing Bernard Malamud's The Fixer through Translation: From El hombre de Kiev (1967) to El reparador (2011); 10. Dostoevsky, Lawrence, Malamud: Malamud's Heroes, Facing the Twin Rejection of Identity and Sensuality
11. Writing on the Edge of Doom: Theological Reflections on Bernard Malamud's God's GraceShort Stories; 12. Seeking the Man behind the Text or a Biographical Approach to Bernard Malamud's Short Stories; 13. Malamud's Short Fiction: Angels and Specters; 14. Bernard Malamud's and John Updike's Art Stories: The Act of Creation in "Still Life" and "Leaves -- 15. Arthur Fidelman's Aesthetic Adventures and Malamud's Poetics of Creativity; Annotated Works Cited; Contributors; Index
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Subject Malamud, Bernard -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Malamud, Bernard fast
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814341155
0814341152
0814341144
9780814341148