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Bloom’s Literary Themes f Alienation The American Dream Death and Dying The Grotesque The Hero’s Journey Human Sexuality The Labyrinth Rebirth and Renewal Bloom’s Literary Themes ALienAtion Bloom’s Literary Themes ALi enAt ion Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Volume Editor Blake Hobby Bloom’s Literary Themes: Alienation Copyright ©2009 by Infobase Publishing Introduction ©2009 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any infor- mation storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alienation / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby. p. cm. — (Bloom’s literary themes) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7910-9798-4 (acid-free paper) 1. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Hobby, Blake. PN56.A45A45 2009 809’.93353—dc22 2008042982 Bloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at http://www.chelseahouse.com Text design by Kerry Casey Cover design by Takeshi Takahashi Printed in the United States of America IBT EJB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper and contains 30 percent postconsumer recycled content. , . Contents Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: xi Themes and Metaphors Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom xv “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Herman Melville) 1 “Reading the original: Alienation, Writing, and Labor in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ ” by Robert t. tally, Jr. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) 11 “Alienation and Renewal in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar” by Steven Gould Axelrod Black Boy (Richard Wright) 21 “Richard Wright’s Blues” by Ralph ellison, in Shadow and Act (1964) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) 31 “Alienation in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World ” by Josephine A. McQuail The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) 41 “Alienation, Materialism, and Religion in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye” by Robert C. evans The Chosen (Chaim Potok) 51 “The Head, the Heart and the Conflict of Generations in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen” by Sam Bluefarb, in College Language Association Journal (1971) viii Contents Dubliners (James Joyce) 61 “Alienation in James Joyce’s Dubliners” by Blake Hobby Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 71 “Burning Bright: Fahrenheit 451 as Symbolic Dystopia” by Donald Watt, in Ray Bradbury (1980) Hamlet (William Shakespeare) 85 “Book IV, Chapter XIII” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels (1865) The Iliad (Homer) 89 “The Solitary Amphora: Alienation and Tradition in Homer’s Iliad ” by Scott F. Crider Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) 101 “Alienation as Narrative Strategy in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” by Aimable Twagilimana Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) 111 “Divided Selves” by Jeremy Hawthorn, in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: A Study in Alienation (1975) Notes from Underground (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) 129 “The Journal Epoch, Notes from Underground ” by Konstantin Mochulsky, in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1967) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 141 “The Grail Knight Arrives” by Raymond M. Olderman in Beyond the Waste Land (1972) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) 149 “Masks in the Mirror: The Eighteen-Nineties” by Masao Miyoshi, in The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians (1969) Contents ix The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus) 161 “Camus’ The Outsider” by Jean-Paul Sartre, in Literary and Philosophical Essays (1955) The Trial (Franz Kafka) 173 “The trial” by erich Heller, in Franz Kafka (1974) Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) 183 “A World Without Solace . . . nearly Almost Always: Alienation in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” Ken Betsalel The Waste Land (Thomas Stearns eliot) 193 “ ‘each in His Prison’: Damnation and Alienation in The Waste Land ” by Matthew J. Bolton “Young Goodman Brown” (nathaniel Hawthorne) 203 “Hawthorne” by Charles Wilkins Webber, in American Whig Review (1846) Acknowledgments 213 Index 215
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