This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature and ideas

This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature and ideas

Preface1 Ernest Hemingway, Literary Critic2 Wallace Stevens and Santayana3 Saul Bellow and the Example of Dostoevsky4 Bellow and Freud5 Literature and Politics: The Bellow/Grass Confrontation6 Malamud's Dubin's Lives: A Jewish Writer and the Sexual Ethic7 More Die of Heartbreak: The Question of Later Bellow8 Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction9 The Holocaust and History in Bellow and MalamudIndex