Malamud, Bernard - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bluestone, Stephen. “God as Matchmaker: A Reading of Malamud's ‘The Magic Barrel.’” Critique 41, no. 4 (22 June 2000): 40-8.

Provides a mythical, Miltonian, reading of “The Magic Barrel.”

Chard-Hutchinson, Martine. “The Functions of Humor in Bernard Malamud's Fiction.” Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 4, no. 2 (1991): 177-87.

Establishes a distinction between humor and irony in Malamud's fiction.

Ross, Michael L. “Brief Roman Candles: Wharton, Huxley, and Malamud.” In Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome, pp. 265-82. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Examines similarities in the depictions of Rome by Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley, and Malamud, arguing that these authors share a nineteenth-century-style fascination with the motifs of the city yet handle these motifs with humor as well as a...

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