Comparative Literary Dimensions: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman Book

Comparative Literary Dimensions, like its companion volume American Literary Dimensions, consists of essays honoring the memory of Melvin J. Friedman. Among the many authors whose works are the subject of these essays are James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Robert Graves, Ferdinand Celine, Luisa Valenzuela, Wilson Harris, and Virginia Woolf. In addition, a wide range of classical and modern writers and literary themes and concepts are discussed by such distinguished American and international scholar-critics as Haskell Block, Zack Bowen, Clayton Koelb, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Margaret Rogers, James Acheson, Raymond Federman, Livio Dobrez, James Liddy, Owen Aldrich, Richard Pearce, David Hayman, Debra Castillo, and Mark Williams. Collectively, these essays represent the latest in critical thinking about a number of major modern and postmodern literary figures. In short, they exemplify the varied methods and approaches evident in literary criticism today. The volume concludes with Jackson Bryer's detailed bibliography of Melvin Friedman's singular contribution to the study of modern literature.