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Tables of Contents for Small Planets
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
The Early Stories
Back to the Beginning: A Late Look at Bellow's Early Stories
3
18
Sanford Marovitz
FROM MOSBY'S MEMOIRS TO SEIZE THE DAY
Short Stories
21
10
Peter Hyland
The Theme of Discontinuity in Saul Bellow's Fiction: ``Looking for Mr. Green'' and ``A Father-to-Be''
31
12
David P. Demarest, Jr
A la recherche du texte perdu: ``The Gonzaga Manuscripts''
43
18
Brigitte Scheer-Schaezler
The Biological Draft Dodger in Bellow's ``A Father-to-Be''
61
8
Richard F. Dietrich
Saul Bellow and the Absent Woman Syndrome: Traces of India in ``Leaving the Yellow House''
69
10
Michael Austin
Two Women Protagonists from Bellow's Short Stories: Character Conception and Its Artistic Realization
79
14
Marianne M. Friedrich
The Logic of the Heart: Biblical Identity and American Culture in Saul Bellow's ``The Old System''
93
10
Alan Berger
A New Look at ``The Old System''
103
10
Sanford Pinsker
Zapotec Man and the Torajan Granny: ``Mosby's Memoirs'' and the Sacrifice of the Heart
113
14
Judie Newman
The Achievement of Saul Bellow's Seize the Day
127
30
Ralph Ciancio
Seize the Day: Intimations of Anti-Hasidic Satire
157
12
S. Lillian Kremer
Atonement in Bellow's Seize the Day
169
20
Gaye McCollum Simmons
Some Versions of the Real: The Novellas of Saul Bellow
189
18
Michael K. Glenday
HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AND OTHER STORIES
Farcical Combat in a Busy World
207
8
Cynthia Ozick
Artist-by-Artist (De)Construction: Mediated Testimony in Bellow's ``Zetland: By a Character Witness''
215
12
Phillip A. Snyder
Self and Transcendence in ``A Silver Dish''
227
12
Dieter Schulz
Saul Bellow's ``Him with His Foot in His Mouth'': Why Bellow (and Other Writers) Matter
239
14
Andrew Furman
Bellow's ``Cousins'': The Suspense of Playing It to the End
253
4
Karl F. Knight
Saul Bellow's Fiction of Contemplation and ``What Kind of Day Did You Have?''
257
8
Jay L. Halio
Recent Adventures of Saul Bellow: Reflections on ``What Kind of Day Did You Have?''
265
16
Alan Lelchuk
RECENT NOVELLAS AND STORIES
Love's Labors Lost: Saul Bellow's A Theft
281
16
Ben Siegel
Degrees of Comic Irony in A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection
297
18
Elaine B. Safer
Remembering and Forgetting: The Holocaust and Jewish-American Culture in Saul Bellow's The Bellarosa Connection
315
14
Alan Berger
Something to Remember Me By: Four Fictions of Memory
329
20
S. Lillian Kremer
The Actual
349
6
Mark Shechner
Bellow's Short Fiction: Selected Bibliography
355
12
Blaine Hall
Index
367