The “Little Things”: An Exploration of the Use of Gesture in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
This article examines the concept of gesture in J. D. Salinger’s short story collection, Nine Stories [For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories] (1953). The author’s legacy is dominated, in both popular and critical culture, by his 1951 debut novel, The Catcher in The Rye. Seven decades on...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2023
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | This article examines the concept of gesture in J. D. Salinger’s short story collection, Nine Stories [For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories] (1953). The author’s legacy is dominated, in both popular and critical culture, by his 1951 debut novel, The Catcher in The Rye. Seven decades on from its publication, Catcher has sold in the region of seventy million copies. Yet, Salinger was first and foremost a short fiction writer; indeed, everything else he ever published initially appeared as a magazine story. Through an exploration of physical, verbal, and symbolic gestures in Nine Stories, this article highlights the need for the critical community to return to the work beyond Catcher. In the seemingly-humble details, the “little things,” one finds a compelling case for rescuing Salinger from the list of literary one-hit-wonders. |
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