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Tag Archives: Janet Malcolm
struggles on the edge of sanity
American literary criticism, to use Adorno’s term is a great machine, a cultural industry constantly in need of raw material. It is, in fact many machines; press the right button and off the assembly line rolls social consciousness, protest, dissent, … Continue reading
tradition of the quest
The atmosphere conjured up by J.D. Salinger inevitably recalls the era of nineteenth-century romanticism; then, too, the promise of utopia disappeared in blood, leaving the younger generation disillusioned and ready to escape into the personal search for truth and beauty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Arthur Heiserman, Byron romantic poet, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James ameron, James Fenimore Cooper, Janet Malcolm, John Lennon murder, Kenneth Slawenski, Lord Byron greece, Mel Gibson, Naomi Klein, Paul Levine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen J. Whitfield, Taxi Driver movie, William Weigand
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a seymour misunderstood: hints of envy and terror
The ambiguity was strongest about Seymour, who is regarded by the surviving Glasses as something of a Holy Man. But there are hints in Franny and Zooey that coexistence with a saint, living or dead, can have its drawbacks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Calvancati Dead of Night, Franz Kafka, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction, Jack Skow, Janet Malcolm, John Updike, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismar, michael redgrave, Paul Levine, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger, William Weigand
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