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Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr Understanding Contemporary American Literature
author
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Giles, James Richard.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570031762
print isbn13
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9781570031762
ebook isbn13
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9780585327402
language
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English
subject
Selby, Hubert--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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PS3569.E547Z68 1998eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Selby, Hubert--Criticism and interpretation.
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Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Matthew J. Bruccoli, Series Editor
Volumes on
Edward Albee John Barth Donald Barthelme
The Beats The Black Mountain Poets
Robert Bly Raymond Carver
Chicano Literature Contemporary American Drama
Contemporary American Horror Fiction
Contemporary American Literary Theory
Contemporary American Science Fiction
James Dickey E. L. Doctorow John Gardner
George Garrett John Hawkes Joseph Heller
John Irving Randall Jarrell William Kennedy
Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov Bernard Malamud
Carson McCullers Arthur Miller Toni Morrison's Fiction
Vladimir Nabokov Joyce Carol Oates Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor Cynthia Ozick Walker Percy
Katherine Anne Porter Reynolds Price Thomas Pynchon
Theodore Roethke Philip Roth Hubert Selby, Jr.
Mary Lee Settle Isaac Bashevis Singer Gary Snyder
William Stafford Anne Tyler Kurt Vonnegut
Tennessee Williams
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Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr.
James R. Giles
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1998 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Giles, James Richard, 1937 Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr. / James R. Giles. p. cm.(Understanding contemporary American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1570031762 1. Selby, HubertCriticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PS3569.E547Z68 1998 813'.54dc21 974721
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To Wanda and to my graduate students in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University who have helped me to understand contemporary American literature
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Contents
Editor's Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Chapter 1 Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr.
1
Chapter 2 Last Exit to Brooklyn
12
Chapter 3 The Room
45
Chapter 4 The Demon
72
Chapter 5 Requiem for a Dream
93
Chapter 6 Song of the Silent Snow
114
Notes
143
Bibliography
149
Index
157
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Editor's Preface
The volumes of Understanding Contemporary American Literature have been planned as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The editor and publisher perceive a need for these volumes because much of the influential contemporary literature makes special demands. Uninitiated readers encounter difficulty in approaching works that depart from the traditional forms and techniques of prose and poetry. Literature relies on conventions, but the conventions keep evolving; new writers form their own conventionswhich in time may become familiar. Put simply, UCAL provides instruction in how to read certain contemporary writersidentifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
The word understanding in the titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature works; that is, what the author is attempting to express and the means by which it is conveyed. Although the criticism and analysis in the series have been aimed at a level of general accessibility, these introductory volumes are meant to be applied in conjunction with the works they cover. They do not provide a substitute for the works and authors they introduce, but rather prepare the reader for more profitable literary experiences.
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