New essays on the Catcher in the Rye /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 118 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American novel American novel. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12474515 |
| Summary: | First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the novel's composition and publication, the mixed reception it received from critics and scholars, the arguments surrounding the attempts at censorship, and its position in a postmodernist literary world. The five essays that follow focus on various aspects of the novel: its ideology within the context of the Cold War, its portrait of a particular subculture within American society, its account of patterns of adolescent crisis, and its rich and complex narrative structure. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 118 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118). |
| ISBN: | 9780511624537 0511624530 0521374421 9780521374422 0521377986 9780521377980 |