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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Abramson maintains that five early stories--"Armistice," "The Grocery Store," "The Literary Life of Laban Goldman," "Benefit Performance," and "An Apology"--reveal Malamud's...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Siebert and Sio-Castiñeira juxtapose the short stories of Malamud and those of the Polish writer Isaiah Spiegel in order to illuminate the ways in which Jewish literary...
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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 winter 1964-65) In the following essay, Mandel argues that Malamud employs complex characters, romantic relationships, and absurd situations to create irony in his two novels The Assistant and A New Life.]...
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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: 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: 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: 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:Reference Guide to Short FictionMost of Bernard Malamud's short stories are love stories, though love stories of an unusual kind. They are not the typical Romeo and Juliet tales in which boy meets girl. They deal with different kinds of love—between...
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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."]...