| Series |
Cambridge companions to authors
Cambridge companions to literature. ^A326514
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| Contents |
Introduction : Saul Bellow in his times / Victoria Aarons -- Bellow's early fiction and the making of the Bellovian protagonist / Philippe Codde -- Seize the day : Bellow's novel of existential crisis / Hilene Flanzbaum -- Bellow's breakthrough : The adventures of Augie March and the novel of voice / Steven G. Kellman -- Bellow's cityscapes : Chicago and New York / Gustavo Sánchez Canales -- Bellow and the Holocaust / Victoria Aarons -- Humboldt's gift and Bellow's intellectual protagonists / S. Lillian Kremer -- On being a Jewish writer : Bellow's post-war American and the American Jewish diaspora / Alan L. Berger -- Bellow and his literary contemporaries / Timothy Parrish -- Women and gender in Bellow's fiction : Herzog / Paule Lévy -- Race and cultural politics in Bellow's fiction / Martín Urdiales-Shaw -- Bellow on Israel : To Jerusalem and back / Leona Toker -- Bellow's non-fiction : It all adds up / Sukhbir Singh -- Bellow's short fiction / David Brauner -- The late Bellow : Ravelstein and the novel of ideas / Leah Garrett. |
| Abstract |
"Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in 20th century American Literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and social experiences of his era: the impact of the Holocaust, the urban experience of European immigrants from a Jewish perspective, the fraught failures of the Vietnam War, the ideological seduction of Marxism and Modernism, and changing attitudes between gender and race. This Companion demonstrates the complexity of this formative writer by emphasizing the ways in which Bellow's works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the post war period to the turn of the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2016026624 |
| ISBN | 9781107108936 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1107108934 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781107520912 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1107520916 (paperback) |
