The 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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Till, Sarah: Literarische Initiationen - Salingers "The Catcher in the Rye" und Austers "Moon Palace" GRIN VERLAG, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640321855
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Komparatistik, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Romane The Catcher in the Rye (1951) von Jerome D. Salinger und Moon Palace (1989) von Paul Auster einander gegenübergestellt. Vorhandene Schnittstellen sollen beleuchtet und markante Unterschiede herausgearbeitet werden. Im Zentrum der Beobachtungen wird dabei die Initiationsthematik stehen. Als einer der elementarsten Bestandteile in beiden Romanen, verdient sie eine gründliche Analyse hinsichtlich der Anlage von Charakteren und Plot sowie des Kontextes von Erzählstruktur und -form. Die Initiation Story wird gemeinhin als eine Art Sonderform der Novels of Adolescence betrachtet. Dieser Begriff umfasst jene literarischen Texte, in denen Heranwachsende die Hauptrolle spielen. Der Lebensabschnitt der Jugend erfuhr mit Aufkommen der gefühlsbetonten Strömung der Empfindsamkeit Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts eine Neubewertung als eigenständige Denk- und Gefühlswelt, die sich auch auf die Literatur auswirkte. Peter Freese spricht von einem unaufhaltsamen Einzug (Freese 1971, 15) jugendlicher Protagonisten in die amerikanische Literatur. Die Neubewertung brachte jedoch auch Schwierigkeiten mit sich: Betroffene fühlen sich weder der Kinder- noch der Erwachsenenwelt zugehörig, woraus sich bei vielen ein individuelles schmerzhaftes Lebensgefühl entwickelt: Die Adoleszenzkrise. Der junge Mensch wird aus dem Zustand kindlicher Unwissenheit heraus erstmals mit den Gesetzen der Erwachsenenwelt konfrontiert. Für einen solchen Übergang von einem in den anderen Zustand, der einem Weg von der Unschuld zur Erfahrung gleichkommt, ist die Suche nach einem Platz in der Welt und gleichsam auch nach einer gefestigten Identität grundlegend. Diese schwierige Phase des Übergangs von der Adoleszenz ins Erwachsenendasein steht in The Catcher in the Rye und in Moon Palace im Mittelpunkt der Handlung. Daher gilt es schließlich zu sehen, auf welche Art und Weise das Thema eines drohenden Identitätsverlusts für beide Texte zentrale Bedeutung erhält und ob es den Protagonisten am Ende des Romans gelingt, eine Aussöhnung zwischen Ich und Umwelt zu erlangen und so letztlich den gesuchten Platz in der Welt zu finden. Auch soll die Frage geklärt werden, warum gerade in der amerikanischen Literatur die Darstellung des adoleszenten Lebensabschnittes mitsamt dessen Erfahrungen und Entwicklungen von so besonderer Bedeutung ist.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 84 S. 210 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V126584

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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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Lan Mackean Illustrator: NA: The Essentials of Literature In English Post-1914, Hodder Arnold 2005 ISBN: 9780340882689

New Softcover NA This book covers the leading works and authors in modern literature in English and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to Margaret Atwood and covering contemporary favorites such as Nineteen Eighty Four, Catcher in the Rye and Midnight's Children, The Essentials of Literature in English Post-1914 is a delightful introduction to works written in English after the First World War and which are already, or look set to become, part of the classic canon. The book is arranged A-Z by author and each entry gives an opening quotation from a key text, brief biographical details and a list of major works as well as a more general discussion of the writer's work. The book also contains an extremely useful set of contextual essays, giving an important overview of modern literature in English and comprehensively cross-referenced to the entries on authors. There is also a glossary of literary terms and a timeline for instant reference. By identifying and analyzing the leading works and authors in modern English literature, this book provides the reader with an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to Margaret Atwood to contemporary favorites like "1984, The" "Catcher in the Rye" and "Midnight's Children," this crucial guide is an introduction to the literary classics written post-1914. Each entry is arranged alphabetically by author and gives an opening quotation from a key text, brief biographical details of the author, and a list of other major works in addition to a more general discussion of the writer's work. The book also contains an extremely useful set of contextual essays, giving an important overview of cross-referenced to the entries on authors, plus a glossary of literary terms and a timeline for instant reference. Printed Pages: 408. 5th or later edition

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