Table of Contents
The qualified encounter / Ihab Hassan -- To find the westward path / John Hollander -- The magic and the dread / Alfred Kazin -- The economy of love / Jonathan Baumbach -- Malamud and the anthropomorphic business / Herbert Leibowitz -- The uses and abuses of commitment / F.W. Dupee -- The natural : Malamud's world ceres / Earl R. Wasserman -- A pariah / V.S. Pritchett -- The stories / Sidney Richman -- Four versions of pastoral / James M. Mellard -- The hero as schnook / Alan Warren Friedman -- A new life / Tony Tanner -- "All men are Jews" / Allen Guttmann -- Requiem for the schlemiel / Ruth R. Wisse -- The artist in hell / Robert Ducharme -- The return of the repressed / Mark Shechner.