SOURCE: Brown, Peter C. “Negative Capability and the Mystery of Hope in Malamud's ‘The First Seven Years.’” Religion and Literature 29, no. 1 (spring 1997): 63-94.
In the following essay, Brown explores Malamud's “radical dissent from contemporary despair” in “The First Seven Years.”
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