from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

John Cheever (1912-1982)

(US short story writer, b. Quincy, MA, expelled from a private school, l. near New York)

Works

Cheever, John. "The Swimmmer." Short story. 1964. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 607-17.*

- - -. "The Country Husband." Story. In The Norton Introduction to Literature. 5th ed. Ed. Carl Bain et al. New York: Norton, 1991. 133-52.

- - -. Bullet Park. New York: Random House-Vintage International.

- - -. Falconer. New York: Random House-Vintage International.

- - -. Oh What a Paradise It Seems. New York: Random House-Vintage International.

- - -. The Wapshot Chronicle. New York: Random House-Vintage International.

- - -. The Wapshot Scandal. New York: Random House-Vintage International.

- - -. "Reunion." In Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories.Ed. R. Shapard and J. Thomas. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1986. 14-16.*

- - -. "Oh ciudad de sueños rotos." In Antología del cuento norteamericano. Ed. Richard Ford. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2002. 613-34.*

Janeway, E., S. Hazzard, J. Cheever, and H. M. Petrakis. "Is the Short Story Necessary?" In Short Story Theories. Ed.Charles E. May. Athens (OH), 1976.

Criticism

Broncano, Manuel "Swimming across Meaning in John Cheever's 'The Swimmer'." In The American Short Story: New Perspectives. Ed. C. González Groba et al. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1997. 135-42.*

Burillo Gadea, María Rosa. "Promesa y frustración en las ciudades de John Cheever." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos (U of Sevilla) 4 (1995): 65-72.

- - -. "The Role of Brothers in John Cheever's Narrative." Proceedings of the XIXth International Conference of AEDEAN. Ed. Javier Pérez Guerra et al. Vigo: Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana da Universidade de Vigo, 1996. 181-84.*

Cowley, Malcolm. "John Cheever: The Novelist's Life as Drama." 1983. In The Portable Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 402-16.*

Hughes, Rebecca, and Kieron O'Hara. "John Cheever's The Swimmer and the Abstract Standpoint of Kantian Moral Philosophy." In The Ethics in Literature. Ed. Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods. Houndmills: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 101-16.*

Schneiderman, Leo. The Literary Mind: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Literature. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1988.

Stewart, Melissa. "Roads of 'Requisite Mysterious Muck': The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's 'The Enormous Radio', and Donald Barthelme's City Life." In Magical Realism. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 477-96.*

Films

The Swimmer.