Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism explores Saul Bellow s moral and philosophical affinity with the writers of American transcendentalism, especially Emerson and Whitman. Its focus is on the -vintage- Bellow, or his -mature- novels, from Henderson the Rain King (1959) to The Dean s December (1982). In these novels, Bellow highlights a moral crisis, arising from humankind s despiritualization and dehumanization, which, he believes, is responsible for an ongoing dichotomy in the modern world. Bellow describes this as a dichotomy of the -Cleans- and the -Dirties-, in...

This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on the postcolonial themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The book explores the works of not just the established...