J.D. Salinger: Detailed Introduction and Biography

Editor's Note: The web is awash with numerous biographies and introductions to Jerome David Salinger but none comes close enough to the following introduction. It touches upon almost all facets of Salinger's life and works and going through it is a rewarding experience indeed, greatly helping the reader to understand Salinger and his chief work The Catcher in the Rye on a better

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The Literary Significance of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

Editor’s Note: A lot has been said and discussed about the literary quality of The Catcher in the Rye over the years. Despite its huge popularity, some find it to be of no or little literary significance. These detractor’s of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye dub the novel s as sheer trash, calling it downright vulgar, corrupting and immoral. They have been vociferously clamoring for its

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Literary Criticism: Reviewers, Critics, and The Catcher in the Rye

Editor’s Note: The following article by Carol and Richard Ohmann kicked up a literary storm of sorts over J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and provoked prominent writers and critics like James E. Miller Jr. to respond vehemently. In this oft quoted masterpiece Carol and Richard Ohmann offer a detailed Marxist analysis of how capitalist social and economic strategies influence the

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Catcher In and Out of History

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