A Study Guide For Bernard Malamud S Black Is My Favorite Color

This textbook will help students to develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning by conducting a research project based on questionnaire- and interview-based research focusing on stereotypes, and reporting on it in a mini-thesis. It was developed for the benefit of international students who, in their penultimate year of study, are planning to write a graduation thesis in English related to stereotypes in their final year with little or no prior knowledge of the subject, or of ...

Examining ten stories from Malamud's Selected Stories, the author examines Malamud in the context of the American and European, and not exclusively Jewish, tradition. She explores why Malamud chose the stories that he included in this work and how they relate to his social conscience. She argues that the stories demonstrate that the modern individual has broken the ancestral linearity of life, and that neither family, religion, nor community hold together today because of a lack of an appropriate set of values. She also explores Selected Stories as a literary work of art, showing how alienation and fragmentation have been recreated in the anthology by means of literary devices, using structural oppositions to examine such issues as security, mystery, and doubt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of American writers, thinkers, and cultural figures, written by subject experts.

Spanning two decades, this frank, witty, and provocative volume—part essay collection, part diary—charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by “one of our most gifted observers” (Newsday). For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America. Stops en route include a Missoula bar, a Tea Party convention in Nashville hosted by Sarah Palin, the Mississippi in full flood, a trip to Hawaii with his daughter, a steelhead river in the Cascades, and the hidden corners of his adopted hometown, Seattle. He deftly explores public and personal spaces, poetry and politics, geography and catastrophe, art and economy, and the shifts in various arenas that define our society. Whether the topic is Robert Lowell or Barack Obama, or how various painters, explorers, and homesteaders have engaged with our mythical and actual landscape, he has an outsider’s eye for the absurd, and his tone is intimate, never nostalgic, and always fresh. Driving Home is irresistibly insightful about America’s character, contradictions, and idiosyncrasies.

Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet.