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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: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: 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: 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: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...