Erich Segal : a critical companion / Linda C. Pelzer.
Erich Segal : a critical companion / Linda C. Pelzer.
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N818.5409/S454.7/1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 133 p. : port. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Series Foreword / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- 1. The Professor Who Wrote Love Story -- 2. Erich Segal and the Sentimental Tradition -- 3. Love Story (1970) -- 4. Oliver's Story (1977) -- 5. Man, Woman and Child (1980) -- 6. The Class (1985) -- 7. Doctors (1988) -- 8. Acts of Faith (1992) -- 9. Prizes...
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
Pelzer shows how Segal's novels explore the parent-child relationship, the price of success, the importance of love, marriage, and human commitment, and the temptations and pressures that make it difficult for the individual to live rightly.
A biographical chapter discusses Segal's career as a novelist and an academic. A chapter on genre examines his fiction in the tradition of the sentimental novel. Each novel is discussed in a separate chapter and analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, literary devices, and style. In addition, Pelzer defines and applies a v...
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Erich Segal : a critical companion / Linda C. Pelzer.
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Critical companions to popular contemporary writers, 1082-4979.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-128) and index.
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N818.5409/S454.7/1
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ISBN
0313299307 (alk. paper)
9780313299308 (alk. paper)
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818.5409
MMS ID
991005687739702626
