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American literary dimensions : poems and essays in honor of Melvin J. Friedman

Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
226 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
9780874136869, 0874136865
40907771
A Letter to Melvin / Ben Siegel
Melvin Friedman, Dead / Ihab Hassan
A Student Remembers / Sidney Krome
Introduction / Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel
"Tents" / Jim Chapson
"Visiting Spring Hill Cemetery" / Peter J. Whalen
"Villanelle" / James Ragan
"A Visit to the Balzac Museum" / James Liddy
Anzia Yezierska's Unwritten Novel / Blanche Gelfant
"Torches of Fury": The Correspondence of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald / Jackson R. Bryer
Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place": Some Notes on American Influences / Richard Allan Davison
Hemingway's In Our Time and the Unknown Genre: The Short Story Cycle / James Nagel
The Aesthetics of Survival: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio / John B. Vickery
Delmore Schwartz's Primal Screen / Irving Malin
Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Bernard Malamud's Blacks and Jews / Steven G. Kellman
Arthur Miller's Broken Jews / Jay L. Halio
A Disrupting Darkness Before His Eyes: The Racial Subject in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King / Gloria L. Cronin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up / Ben Siegel
Jewish Autobiographies and the Counter-Example of Philip Roth / Mark Krupnick
The Tragicomic in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater / Elaine Safer
Real Heroes, Sports Heroes, and American Culture / Daniel Walden
A Forgotten Baseball Classic: Owen Johnson's The Humming Bird / Samuel I. Bellman
Diamonds in the Rough: Three Tales of a Ballclub's Death / Jerome Klinkowitz