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The Critical Response to Saul Bellow, Vol. 20 »

Authors: Gerhard P. Bach
ISBN-13: 9780313283703, ISBN-10: 0313283702
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Gerhard P. Bach

GERHARD BACH is Professor of American Studies at the Paedagogische Hochschule Heidelberg in Germany.

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

A 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 Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Chronology
	Introduction	1
	Dangling Man (1944)
	Introducing an Important New Writer	11
	A Man in His Time	12
	Dangling Man: Saul Bellow's Lyrical Experiment	14
	From Dangling Man to "Colonies of the Spirit"	23
	The Victim (1947)
	Anti-Semitism Hits a Jew	29
	Among the Fallen	30
	Saul Bellow's The Victim	32
	The Holocaust in The Victim	41
	The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
	Portrait of an American, Chicago-Born	47
	The Man With No Commitments	49
	The New American Adam in Augie March	52
	Looking Back at Augie March	62
	Seize the Day (1956)
	The Discovered Self	68
	Bellow Comes of Age	70
	Running Contrary Ways: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day	73
	Empathy and Self-Validation in Bellow's Seize the Day	83
	Henderson the Rain King (1959)
	The Search for Salvation	100
	Henderson's Bellow	102
	Life Against Death in Henderson the Rain King	107
	Saul Bellow's Henderson as America	119
	Herzog (1964)
	Bellow the Brain King	125
	Hurtsog, Hairtsog, Heart's Hog?	129
	Moses-Bloom-Herzog: Bellow's Everyman	133
	"Weirdly Tranquil" Vision: The Point of View of Moses Herzog	145
	Plays (1954, 1965)
	Saul Bellow on the Drag Strip	152
	The "Mental Comedies" of Saul Bellow	154
	Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
	Mr. Sammler's Planet	169
	Though He Slay Me	174
	Bellow on Modernism	177
	Mr. Sammler's Planet: Wells, Hitler, and the World State	181
	Humboldt's Gift (1975)
	A Higher Selfishness?	194
	Humboldt's Gift: A New Bellow?	203
	Gender and Self-Deception in Humboldt's Gift	210
	To Jerusalem and Back (1976)
	Unsentimental Journey	218
	In Defiance of Reason: Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back	223
	The Dean's December (1982)
	An Interview with Saul Bellow	234
	A Winter's Tale	247
	The Dean's December	250
	The Dean's December: "A Companion Piece to Mr. Sammler's Planet"	252
	Saul Bellow's "Visionary Project"	260
	Short 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 Fiction	271
	On Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories	282
	More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
	More Die of Heartbreak	293
	The Headache of Explanation	295
	A Contemporary Fall: More Die of Heartbreak	298
	A Theft (1989)
	Less Brains, Better Legs	312
	It Doesn't Ring True	314
	Bellow's A Theft: The Human Pair in "Gogmagogsville"	318
	The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
	Memory in America	327
	Memory and the Holocaust: Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Bellarosa Connection	334
	"Something to Remember Me By" (1990)
	Something to Remember Him By?	345
	Choosing to Read the Text	348
	A Guide to Bibliographies	357
	Index	359