Judith Rossner attained a national reputation with Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975), a best-seller which presents a dramatic portrayal of the sexual dilemma of modern Americans. The movie based on the b...
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Critical Essay by Marge Piercy
In Emmeline, Judith Rossner has taken on a plot of high improbable melodrama and come so close to making it believable that the part we cannot swallow scarcely bothers ...
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Critical Essay by Julian Moynahan
If "Emmeline" is a novel it is Judith Rossner's sixth…. A prefatory note explains that the author heard about Emmeline from one Nettie Mi...
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Critical Essay by Eliot Fremont-smith
It is strange, though not crucial, that the factual basis of Emmeline is indicated only in a tiny preface many readers may miss—strange because a myth-com...
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Critical Essay by Harriet Ritvo
Emmeline is a study in the psychology of victimization, and of survival. Circumstances thrust its heroine into the path of overwhelming historical, social and finally ...
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Critical Essay by Walter Kendrick
Like Parisians, shrinks leave town in August. If they're New York shrinks, they flock to the Hamptons, where for one brief month no patients interrupt their l...
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Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
Throughout August, Rossner conveys the seriousness and excitement of psychoanalysis. Doctor and patient participate in a great cultural experiment, anatomizing the myth...
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Critical Essay by Adam Mars-jones
The modern heroines of Judith Rossner's recent fiction, Teresa in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Dianne and Nadine in Attachments, were confronted with destructi...
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New languages are discovered every year, and “goodbye” is a lousy word in every one of them. We said it a lot in 2005, with sadness every time. But before we throw out the Dom from New ...
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New languages are discovered every year, and “goodbye” is a lousy word in every one of them. We said it a lot in 2005, with sadness every time. But before we throw out the Dom from New...
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Judith (Perelman) Rossner
Critical Essay by Marge Piercy
Adios! Addio! Adieu! Beloved Greats Depart In 2005, Which Stinks
