Critical Essays on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

Critical Essays on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
ISBN-10
0816188947
ISBN-13
9780816188949
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
245
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Author
Joel Salzberg

Description

This volume brings together critical essays on The Catcher in the Rye (1951), representing three decades from the 1950s through the 1980s. It includes a number of key reviews that appeared shortly after the publication of the novel. The introduction by Salzberg traces the history of the criticism and places it in the context of Salinger's overall career. The two dozen pieces in the volume reflect virtually every critical school. Freudian and Marxist approaches, comparative analyses, gender criticism, structuralist studies, and linguistic analyses throw light on the novel and reveal their strengths and weaknesses as tools for reading long fiction. ISBN 0-8161-8894-7: $38.00.

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