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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: The Good Man Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud[(essay date 1981) In the following essay, Alter explores differences in Malamud's interpretation of historical significance in The Fixer, which Alter categorizes as a novel of "Jewish historicism," and The Tenants,...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedI. Bernard Malamud's fifth and most recent novel, The Tenants, is vigorously alive. The dialogue and pace are brisk and racy; fact and fantasy combine with magical effect; the action mounts to a frantic climax. And...
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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: Bernard Malamud Revisited[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Abramson addresses Malamud's treatment of the tension between Jews and African Americans in The Tenants.] Blacks and Whites When Malamud was asked why he wrote The Tenants,...
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From: The Good Man's Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud[(essay date 1981) In the following essay, Alter examines the "democratic dilemma" in Malamud's fiction.] In the explosion of Jewish-American fiction that has characterized this country's literary history since the...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Abramson outlines the major themes of Malamud's novel God's Grace, including the moral power of language, the issue of free will, and the father-son relationship.] God's Grace...
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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: American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Kellman discusses the uneasy relationship between African Americans and Jews in Bernard Malamud's The Tenants.] Each, thought the writer, feels the anguish of the other.--The...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Bernard Malamud, one of the most popular contemporary writers of Jewish-American fiction, contributed significantly to the growth in ethnic consciousness in American letters. He raised serious questions about the...
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From: The American Writer and the University[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Mellard argues that A New Life is both an academic novel and a pastoral.] Bernard Malamud's A New Life (1961) has been labeled many things--a Western and a "travesty western,"...
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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 1983) In the following essay, Briganti contends that women in Malamud's fiction generally exist only to provide the momentum or impetus for the male characters to reach self-knowledge.] It is generally...
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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 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: 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: 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...