American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman

by Friedman, Melvin J.; Halio, Jay L.; Siegel, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780874136869
• ISBN10: 0874136865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

Prefaces: Recollections
A Letter to Melvin	11	(4)
Ben Siegel
Melvin Friedman, Dead	15	(2)
Ihab Hassan
A Student Remembers	17	(4)
Sidney Krome
Introduction	21	(10)
Jay L. Halio
Ben Siegel
Part I: Poems
``Tents''	31	(1)
Jim Chapson
``Visiting Spring Hill Cemetery''	32	(1)
Peter J. Whalen
``Villanelle''	33	(1)
James Ragan
``A Visit to the Balzac Museum''	34	(5)
James Liddy
Part II: Essays in American Literature
Anzia Yezierska's Unwritten Novel	39	(26)
Blanche Gelfant
``Torches of Fury'': The Correspondence of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald	65	(16)
Jackson R. Bryer
Hemingway's ``A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'': Some Notes on American Influences	81	(10)
Richard Allan Davison
Hemingway's In Our Time and the Unknown Genre: The Short Story Cycle	91	(8)
James Nagel
The Aesthetics of Survival: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio	99	(13)
John B. Vickery
Delmore Schwartz's Primal Screen	112	(6)
Irving Malin
Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Bernard Malamud's Blacks and Jews	118	(10)
Steven G. Kellman
Arthur Miller's Broken Jews	128	(8)
Jay L. Halio
A Disrupting Darkness Before His Eyes: The Racial Subject in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King	136	(9)
Gloria L. Cronin
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up	145	(10)
Ben Siegel
Jewish Autobiographies and the Counter-Example of Philip Roth	155	(13)
Mark Krupnick
The Tragicomic in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater	168	(15)
Elaine Safer
Part III: Essays on Sports
Real Heroes, Sports Heroes, and American Culture	183	(13)
Daniel Walden
A Forgotten Baseball Classic: Owen Johnson's The Humming Bird	196	(6)
Samuel I. Bellman
Diamonds in the Rough: Three Tales of a Ballclub's Death	202	(15)
Jerome Klinkowitz
Notes on Contributors	217	(4)
Index	221