Salinger Catcher in The Rye

Göhn, Christopher: American Adolescence: J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero" GRIN VERLAG, Oktober 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640445503
American Literature thematizing youth, adolescence and initiation draws on a long tradition reaching back to the 18th century, including writers like Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James and William Faulkner. After the Second World War, the American novel of adolescence flourished again in a period that also gave birth to the genre's arguably most prominent representative: When J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye first entered the American book market in 1951, its critical reception could not have diverged more. Salinger's first novel, after publishing a number of short stories in the New Yorker, was mostly attacked for its extensive use of colloquial language. Initial reviews ranged from an unusual brilliant first novel to wholly repellent in its mingled vulgarity [...] and sly perversion. In 1985, thirty-four years later, Less Than Zero, the first novel of Bennington College student Bret Easton Ellis, was published and also received widely mixed criticism. While Interview Magazine called his debut startling and hypnotic, Paul Gray wrote in an article for Time Magazine that the novel offers little more than its title promises, referring to its lack of depth and fully developed characters. The first part of this work will lay the theoretical foundations and discuss the genre of the novel of adolescence in respect to the two novels under investigation. After covering the theoretical basics, the second part of this paper intends to concentrate on detecting parallels in the themes and presentations of adolescence and initiation in both works. Since social criticism is always a central genre-specific characteristic of the novel of adolescence, the next part will briefly discuss this issue in respect to The Catcher in the Rye as well as Less Than Zero and point to a possible interpretation of a diachronic development of American society that the two novels delineate. Subsequently, the focus will be shifted to the final chapters of both novels and center upon questions concerning epiphanies, progress and outlook for the respective protagonist. Eventually, this paper intends to give a far reaching picture of the presentation of adolescence in two novels from very different backgrounds, that, in all their diversity, are so astoundingly similar.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 92 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 6 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V137276

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Will, Daniela: Escaping Adulthood How Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger s 'The Catcher in the Rye' flees into his imaginary world, GRIN VERLAG, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640647319
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has been put on school syllabus in hundreds of schools not only in America, but all over the world. The glorification of drinking, smoking, lying, promiscuity and immorality have not least been the reasons for this book heading the list of banned books in a number of American schools (Frangedis 72). Still adolescents all over the world could identify with the rebellious teenager Holden Caulfield, to the worries of their parents. Helen Frangedis tries to ease those worries, arguing that the teaching of morals is in fact her justification for introducing the book to her students, since Salinger's purpose was actually morally indeed (Frangedis 72). But how does Salinger point to what in his opinion is morally right By presenting a protagonist that opposes all the wrong values. Hol-den Caulfield finds himself irrevocably growing towards a life that does not appeal to him at all: The life of an adult. With his sixteen years, he cannot imagine adapting to the society he sees everyday; a society characterized by phoniness, superficiality and wrong values. The on-ly solution he sees thus is to escape; to flee; into an imaginary world. The following paper is going to have a close look at three essential questions that have to be posed in this context: What is the initial situation that dissatisfies Holden so much, that he wants to flee, and where to In which ways does he flee And, most important, what is the deeper psychological reason for his flight By answering these questions it will be proved that Holden Caulfield flees adulthood because of his neurotic association of maturation and death. Therefore, his real world, as well as the imaginary world he flees to, will be looked at, before analyzing his ways of fleeing and after all, taking a closer look at his neurosis.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 40 S. 210 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V152709

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Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Bantam, 1977 ISBN: 0553114921
AUTHOR: Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980. Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. Salinger published his first stories in Story magazine which was started by Whit Burnett. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year... WIKIPEDIA

Taschenbuch. 214 Seiten. Zustand: Gut. Altersbedingter Zustand. IN ENGLISH, Knickstellen

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OPLAND, J. (compiled by): Notes on J. D. Salinger's THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, London Methuen Paperbacks 1977 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 042388980X
042388980X As new.

Contents: 1). Jerome David Salinger. 2). Characters in 'The catcher in the rye'. 3). Plot. 4). Structure. 5). Style. 6). Holden Caulfield's character. 7). Holden Caulfield's situation. 8). Symbols and motifs. 9). Meaning. 10). Topics for discussion. 11). Suggestions for further reading. 42 pag. Reprint of the 1976 edition Cahier/stapled 21,5cmx13,5cm; Reprint of the 1976 edition

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