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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Aarons explores elements of Jewish ethics of compassion in Malamud's short stories.] "You bastard, don't you understand what it means human?" With this challenge,...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Helterman provides an overview of Malamud's novels and short stories, noting moral concerns as a central thematic element.] Bernard Malamud grew up in a world not unlike that...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 16. )Bernard Malamud was a writer whose work explored questions and themes of Jewishness in a humanistic and often fantastic fashion. Jewish identity and experience had both a specific and a universal meaning for Malamud. He...
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From: Conversations with Bernard Malamud[(interview date 1975) In the following interview, conducted through an exchange of letters in 1973 and originally published in Bernard Malamud: A Collection of Critical Essays in 1975, Malamud discusses specific aspects...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date summer 1964) In the following essay, Ratner explores the theme of suffering as a means to regeneration and enlightenment in Malamud's fiction, including The Assistant,The Magic Barrel,The Natural, and A New...
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From: Immigrant-Survivors: Post-Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction[(essay date 1981) In the following essay, Bilik explores the ways in which Malamud diverges from the conventions of the majority of post-Holocaust Jewish fiction.] No contemporary American writer has written about...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date October 1971) In the following essay, Ducharme argues that the themes of suffering and responsibility provide "novelistic unity" to the episodic structure of Pictures of Fidelman.] The work of any...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Lyons offers a feminist reading of several of Malamud's short stories.] Malamud, like so many American Fiction writers, was a great short story writer and a good novelist....
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1974) In the following essay, Cohen analyzes the characters, plot, and setting of Malamud's novel The Natural.] The Natural, first published in 1952, is not realistic. This is no crime. It would have been...
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From: Judaism[The aspects of culture] which characterize Malamud's best writing, particularly some of his finest short stories, I would identify with Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement founded shortly before the middle of the...
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Brown explores Malamud's "radical dissent from contemporary despair" in "The First Seven Years."] "Negative capability" is the capacity to register a faithful...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Aarons characterizes Malamud's protagonists as being concerned with fulfilling various aspects of ancient Jewish law.] "He felt a loss but it was an old one."--Malamud, The...
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From: Religion & Literature[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Brown investigates the theme of hope in "The First Seven Years," noting that Malamud's treatment of negative capability in the story allows him to confront the horrors of...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date summer 1996) In the following essay, Watts explores the conflict between the assimilated Jew and the unassimilated Jew in Malamud's "The Jewbird," asserting that "tenancy" is a central metaphor for...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date fall 1991) In the following essay, Adler examines the father-son relationship between Pinye Salzman and Leo Finkle in "The Magic Barrel" within the context of the Akedah--a concept that originates in the...
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From: The Fiction of Bernard Malamud[(essay date 1977) In the following essay, Benson argues that Malamud is a traditional American writer.] I. Moo Day for Malamud Oregon in April is a big country of wet, green valleys and snow-laden mountains. As an...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Solotaroff investigates the characters, themes, and motifs central to Malamud's "folk ghetto" stories, including "Idiots First," "The Cost of Living," and "The Death of Me."]...