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For Further Study
Baumbach, Jonathan. "The Saint as a Young Man: A Reappraisal of The Catcher in the Rye." In Modern
Language Quarterly, Vol. 25, no. 4, December, 1964, pp. 461-72. This defense of The Catcher in the Rye
valorizes Holden's childlike innocence as a form of saintly idealism.
Bloom, Harold. "Introduction." In Major Literary Characters, edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1996, pp. 1-4. A general analysis of the character Holden Caulfield which situates him relative to other literary figures.
Costello, Donald P. "The Language of The Catcher in the Rye." In American Speech, Vol. 34, no. 3, October, 1959, pp. 172-81. An analysis of how Salinger's use of language realistically portrays American teenage slang during the 1950s.
Edwards, Duane. "Holden Caulfield: Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything." In English Literary History, Vol. 44, no. 3, Fall, 1977, pp. 556-67. This analysis of the character of Holden Caulfield emphasizes how Holden is an ironic character who exemplifies the same kind of phoniness that he criticizes in others.
French, Warren. J. D. Salinger, Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1988. This book provides an overview of Salinger's life and fiction, and one of its chapters also contains an excellent introduction to the themes and issues raised in The Catcher in the Rye.
Furst, Lilian. "Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye." In Canadian
Review of Comparative Literature, Vol. 5, no. 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 72-85. An analysis of parallels between The Catcher in the Rye and Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground.
Heiserman, Arthur, and James E. Miller, Jr. "J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff." In Western Humanities
Review, Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring, 1956, pp. 129-37. An analysis of The Catcher in the Rye which shows how it
belongs to the western literary tradition of epic quest narratives.
Howell, John M. "Salinger in the Waste Land." In Critical Essays on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, edited by Joel Salzberg. G. K. Hall & Co., 1990, pp. 85-91. An analysis of parallels between The Catcher in
the Rye and T. S. Eliot's poetry.
Kaplan, Charles. "Holden and Huck: The Odysseys of Youth." In College English, Vol. 18, no. 2, November, 1956, pp. 76-80. A comparison of The Catcher in the Rye to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Lee, Robert A. "'Flunking Everything Else Except English Anyway': Holden Caulfield, Author." In Critical
Essays on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, edited by Joel Salzberg. G. K. Hall & Co., 1990, pp.
185-97. An analysis of Holden's character which focuses on his artistic creativity.
Ohmann, Carol, and Richard Ohmann. "Reviewers, Critics, and The Catcher in the Rye." In Critical Inquiry, Vol. 3, no. 1, Autumn, 1976, pp. 15-37. A Marxist analysis of how capitalist social and economic strategies influence the development of Holden's character.
Salzman, Jack. "Introduction." In New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye, edited by Jack Salzman. Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 1-22. An overview of critical interpretations of The Catcher in the Rye.
Schriber, Mary Suzanne. "Holden Caulfield, C'est Moi." In Critical Essays on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in
the Rye, edited by Joel Salzberg. G. K. Hall & Co., 1990, pp. 226-38. A feminist analysis of the critical
reception of The Catcher in the Rye which argues that male critics inflate the significance of the novel because they identify with Holden as a representation of their own male adolescence and because they ignore female perspectives.
Weinberg, Helen. The New Novel in America: The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1970. An analysis of parallels between The Catcher in the Rye and Franz Kafka's fiction.