The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud

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CONTENTS Preface i,x Introduction xi I. THE AUTHOR Chapter 1 Malamud in Corvallis: Memories ofDad 3 Paul Malamud Chapter2 Recollecting Bernie 13 Colleagues at Oregon State, Interviewed by Paul Malamud Chapter 3 Remembrances: Bernard Malamud 25 Cynthia Ozick Chapter 4 Malamud: Seen and Unseen 29 Daniel Stern Chapters On The Magic Barrel 35 Nicholas Delbanco Chapter 6 The Rhythms of Friendship in the Ufe of Art: The Correspondence of Bernard Malamud and Rosemarie Beck 43 Joel Salzberg II. INDIVIDUAL WORKS Chapter 7 America and the History of the Jews in Bernard Malamud's "The Last Mohican" 59 Karen L. Polster vii viii CONTENTS Chapter8 Zen Buddhism and The Assistant: A Grocery as a Training Monastery 69 Edward A. Abramson Chapter 9 Malamud's New [Academic] Life-and Ours 87 Sanford Pinsker Chapter 10 The Lives of Dubin 101 Walter Shear Chapter 11 Gorilla in the Myth: Malamud's God's Grace 111 D. Mesher III. THEMATIC THREADS: PATTERNS IN MALAMUD'S FICTION Chapter 12 Reflections on Transmogrified Yiddish Archetypes in Fiction by Bernard Malamud 123 S. Lillian Kremer Chapter 13 Not True Although Truth: The Holocaust's Legacy in Three Malamud Stories: "The German Refugee," "Man in the Drawer," and "The Lady of the Lake" 139 Eileen H. Watts Chapter 14 Bernard and Juliet: Romances and Desire in Malamud's High Art 153 Alan Cheuse Chapter 15 Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick: Kindred Neshamas 161 Evelyn Avery Chapter 16 Bernard Malamud and His Universal Menschen 167 Daniel Walden Chapter 17 A Kind of Vigilance: Tropic Suspension in Bernard Malamud's Fiction 175 Eileen H. Watts Contributors List Index Victoria Aarons IV. ANNOTATED SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 189 209 213 ...