Monday, October 21, 2013

Some titles to get you started...

You are not limited to this list. 

Psychoanalytic (Freud/Jung/Psychoanalysis of Holden’s character)
·      “Kings in the Back Row: Meaning through Structure.  A Reading of Salinger’s Catcher” by Carl F. Strauch (symbolism, imagery, structure)
·      “Holden and Psychoanalysis” by Dennis Vail (1976)
·      “Love and Death in Catcher” by Peter Shaw (1991)
·      “The Psychological Structure of Catcher” by James Bryan (1974)
·      “Holden Caufield: ‘Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything’” by Duane Edwards
·      “Mentor Mori; or, Sibling Society and Cathcer” by Robert Miltner (lack of male role models, society of 50s and 60s, relationship with Phoebe)
·      “The Psychoanalyst and the Fetishist: Wilhelm Stekel and Mr. Antolini in Catcher” by Lydia Rogers
·      “Salinger Then and Now” by Terry Teachout (1987)
·      “J.D. Salinger’s Holden and Seymour and the Spiritual Activist Hero” by Helen Weinberg (1987)
·      “Salinger’s Oasis of Innocence” by Anne Marple (1961)

Marxist
·      “Memories of Holden Caufield—and of Miss Greenwood” by Carl Freedman (2003)
·      “Universals and the Historically Particular” by Carol and Richard Ohmann (1977) (anything you can find by the Ohmann’s will be a good starting point for a Marxist reading of Catcher)
·      “Reviewers, Critics, and The Catcher in the Rye” by Carol and Richard Ohmann
·      The Catcher in the Rye:  In A Reader’s Guide to J.D. Salinger” by Eberhard Aslen (2002)

Postmodern
·      “Reconsidering the Concept of Therapeutic Landscapes in Salinger’s Catcher” by Leonard Baer (2004)
·      “Reading Salinger’s Silence” by Myles Weber (2005)
·      “The Personal Narrative and Salinger’s Catcher” by Danielle Roemer (1992)

New Historicism
·      “J.D. Salinger: The Development of the Misfit Hero” by Paul Levine (1958)
·      “The Fallen Idol: The Immature World of Holden Caufield” by Peter J. Seng (1961)
·      “Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History in Catcher in the Rye” by Stephen Whitfield (1997)
·      “In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship, Controversies, and Postwar American Character” by Pamela Hunt Steinle (review by John Arther Maynard, 2002)
·      “Protecting Holden Caufield and His Friends from the Censors” by Edward B. Jenkinson (1985)


Queer Theory
·      “The Catcher Controversies as Cultural Debate” by Pamela Hunt Steinle (2000)

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