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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: Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing[(essay date fall 1980) In the following essay, Malin suggests autobiographical elements in Pictures of Fidelman that allow Malamud to explore his role as an artist.] Although many critics have written about Bernard...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date spring 1990) In the following essay, Buchen explores the relationship in Pictures of Fidelman between life as an artist and the protagonist's final embrace of bisexuality.] Every experience that is not...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Chard-Hutchinson relates aspects of Jacques Derrida's The Truth in Painting to Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman in order to delineate the subversive elements in the six stories of...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, von Bardeleben studies how Ozick and other Jewish American writers of Eastern European descent have attempted to integrate their “sites of memory” into American national...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Quart discusses Malamud's technique of keeping his female characters at a distance--both physically and emotionally--from his male characters.] Bernard Malamud's central...