The Critical Response to Saul Bellow

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The reviews and essays gathered in this volume bring into focus the different concerns and critical approaches to reading Saul Bellow over the last 50 years. The volume covers Bellow's entire career, from the late 1940s into the 1990s. Representative samples from the earliest responses to the most recent critical assessments allow the reader to view the different phases and approaches to Bellow's art over time.

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Any twentieth-century American literature reference collection should find this a worthwhile purchase. Highly recommended.-Reference Book review
"Any twentieth-century American literature reference collection should find this a worthwhile purchase. Highly recommended."-Reference Book review

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GERHARD BACH is Professor of American Studies at the Paedagogische Hochschule Heidelberg in Germany. He is also an Honorary Adjunct Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah. Bach has edited several books, and his articles have appeared in such journals as Studies in American Jewish Literature, Saul Bellow Journal, and American Literary Realism.