{"product_id":"bernard-malamud-a-centennial-tribute-paperback","title":"Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoria Aarons\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGustavo S. Canales\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American Jewish protagonist and a newly emergent voice that came to define American letters and that has continued to influence writers for over half a century. This collection is a tribute to Malamud in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Literary critic Harold Bloom suggests that \"Malamud is perhaps the purest storyteller since Leskov,\" the nineteenth-century Russian novelist and satirist. Novelist Cynthia Ozick, in a tribute to Malamud, described him as \"the very writer who had brought into being a new American idiom of his own idiosyncratic invention.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Unlike other collections devoted to Malamud, this collection is international in scope, compiling diverse essays from the United States, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain, and demonstrating the wide range of scholarship and approaches to Bernard Malamud's fiction. The essays show the breadth and depth of this masterful craftsman and explore through his short fiction and his novels such topics as the Malamudian protagonist's relation to the urban\/natural space; Malamud's approach to death; race and ethnicity; the Malamudian hero as modern schlemiel; and the role of fantasy in Malamud's fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBernard Malamud \u003c\/em\u003eis a comprehensive collection that celebrates a voice that helped to shape the last fifty years of literary works. Readers of American literary criticism and Jewish studies alike will appreciate this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria Aarons holds the position of O. R. \u0026amp; Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature in the English Department at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Measure of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened to Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003ci\u003eReinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Diaspora: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2015), and co-author with Alan L. Berger of the forthcoming book \u003ci\u003eThird-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. Aarons has published over seventy scholarly essays in journals and book collections, is on the editorial board of a number of journals, and is a judge for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustavo Sánchez Canales teaches English at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where he is also vice dean for Research. He has published book chapters and articles on Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306139107513,"sku":"9780814341148","price":88.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/bernard-malamud-a-centennial-tribute-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}