Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
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The religious masquerade : Miss Lonelyhearts / Kingsley Widmer -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts / Mark Conroy -- The ritual icon / Douglas Robinson -- Miss Lonelyhearts : the absurd center of the dead world / Robert Emmet Long -- "Inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering?" : a reply to the correspondence in Miss Lonelyhearts / John Keyes -- Miss Lonelyhearts and the rhetoric of disintegration / Robert Wexelblatt -- Shrike as the modernist anti-hero in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts / Beverly J. Jones -- Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts : the Waste Land rescripted / Miriam Fuchs -- Saints and lovers : Miss Lonelyhearts in the tradition / Richard P. Lynch -- The desert, the lamb, the cross : debased iconography in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts / Marian E. Crowe.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A collection of essays on Nathanael West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, arranged in chronological order of publication.