Salinger and Holden: Silent Heroes of Modern Times
Keywords:
silent heroes, modern times, silence and self-imposed exile, critical responses
Abstract
Among the great writers of the tumultuous decade of 1950s America, J. D. Salinger acquires a peculiar stance. His popularity rests precisely on two bases: that he was the writer of one literary bible of the young generations to come, The Catcher in the Rye, and that he was, ironically enough, resentful toward the publicity brought by this novel and few, but brilliant, short stories. This essay will focus on the mystery of Salinger’s silence and self-imposed exile by exploring his life and ideas and the various social and critical responses to his celebrated novel.Downloads
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Costello, D. P. (1959). The Language of The Catcher in the Rye. American Speech, 34 (3), 172–182. [CrossRef]
Curry, R. R. (2007). Holden Caulfield is not a person of colour. In S. Graham (Ed.), J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (pp. 77-88). London: Routledge.
Eppes, B. (1981). What I did last summer. In C. Crawford (2006) (Ed.), If you really want to hear about it: Writers on J. D. Salinger and his works (pp. 25-42). New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
French, W. (1970). The age of Salinger. In W. French (Ed.), The fifties: Fiction, poetry, drama. In Contemporary Literary Criticism, 12, 514-516.
Graham, S. (2007). J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. London: Routledge.
Gwynn, F. L.,. & Blotner, J. L. (1958). The fiction of J .D. Salinger. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press.
Harper, H. M. Jr. (1967). Desperate faith: A study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin and Updike. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Hamilton, I. (1986). J. D. Salinger: A writing life. New York: Random House.
Hassan, I. H. (1982). The dismemberment of orpheus: Toward a postmodern literature. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Havermann, E. (1961). The search for the mysterious J. D. Salinger. In C. Crawford (2006). (Ed.), If you really want to hear about it: Writers on J. D. Salinger and his works (pp. 5-24). New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Heiserman, A., & Miller, J. E. Jr. (1956). J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff. Western Humanities Review, X(2), 129-137.
Kaplan, C. (1956). Holden and huck: The odysseys of youth. College English, 18(2), 79-80. [CrossRef]
Medovoi, L. (1997). Democracy, capitalism, and American literature: The cold war construction of J. D. Salinger's Paperback Hero. In J. Foreman (Ed.), The other fifties: Interrogating midcentury American icons. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Menand, L. (2001). Holden at fifty: The catcher in the rye and what it spawned. In C. Crawford (2006) (Ed.), If you really want to hear about it: Writers on J. D. Salinger and his works (pp. 235-245). New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Miller, J. E. Jr. (1977). Catcher in and out of history. Critical Inquiry, 3(3), 599-603. [CrossRef]
Mondloch, H. (2003). Squalor and redemption [Electronic version]. The World & I, 18(11), 232 - 241.
Morrill, S. (2006). A brief biography of J. D. Salinger. In C. Crawford (Ed.), If you really want to hear about it: Writers on J. D. Salinger and his works (pp. 161-181). New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Ohmann, C., & Ohmann, R. (1976). Reviewers, critics, and The Catcher in the Rye. Critical Inquiry, 3(1), 15-37. [CrossRef]
Ohmann, C., & Ohmann, R. (1977). Universals and the historically particular. Critical Inquiry, 3(4), 773-777. [CrossRef]
Pattanaik, D. R. (1998). The holy refusal: A Vedantic interpretation of J. D. Salinger's Silence. In C. Crawford (Ed.), If you really want to hear about it: Writers on J. D. Salinger and his works (pp. 199-217). New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Salinger, J. D. (1958). The catcher in the rye. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Salinger, J. D. (1962). Franny and Zooey. London: Heineman.
Salinger, J. D. (1964). For Esmé –with love and squalor, and other stories. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Salinger, J. D. (1965). Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and seymour: An introduction. New York: Bantam Books.
Salinger, M. A. (2000). Dream catcher: A memoir. New York: Washington Square Press.
Salzman, J. (1993) (Ed.). New essays on the catcher in the rye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Steiner, G. (1959). The Salinger Industry. The Nation, 189, pp. 360-363.
Steinle, P. H. (2000). In cold fear: The catcher in the rye censorship controversies and postwar American character. Ohio: Ohio State University.
Strauch, C. F. (1961). Kings in the back row: Meaning through structure, A reading of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 2(1), 5–30. [CrossRef]
Way, B. (1962). Franny and Zooey and J. D. Salinger. New Left Review, I, 15.
Whitfield, S. J. (1997). Cherished and cursed: Toward a social history of The Catcher in the Rye [Electronic version]. The New England Quarterly, 70(4), 567-601. [CrossRef]
Whitfield, S. J. (2002). Raise high the bookshelves, censors! [Electronic version]. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 78(2), 356-361.
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2011-09-05
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Ghasemi, P., & Ghafoori, M. (2011). Salinger and Holden: Silent Heroes of Modern Times. K@ta, 13(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.13.1.19-36
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