William Styron's Sophie's choice / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Games and tragedy: unidentified quotations in William Styron's Sophie's choice / Nancy Chinn -- Styron's disguises: a provisional rebel in Christian masquerade / Samuel Coale -- Dialogic worlds: Sophie's choice / Gavin Cologne-Brookes -- William Styron's Sophie's choice: the structure of oppression / Carolyn A. Durham -- I, Stingo: the problem of egotism in Sophie's choice / William Heath -- Sophie's choice: in the realm of the unspeakable / Elisabeth Herion-Sarafidis -- Speakable and unspeakable in Styron's Sophie's choice / Michael Kreyling -- The reach of fiction: narrative technique in Styron's Sophie's choice / Richard G. Law -- Fact-flirting fiction: historiographical potential or involuntary parody? / Lars Ole Sauerberg -- Sophie's choice: an American voyage into the mystery of iniquity / Rhoda Sirlin -- Bach vs Brooklyn's clamorous yawp: sound in Sophie's choice / Frederik N. Smith -- The whisper of violins in Styron's Sophie's choice / Janet M. Stanford -- A conversation with William Styron / Gideon Telpaz -- Styron's historical pre-text: Nat Turner, Sophie, and the beginnings of a postmodern career / Dawn Trouard -- Stingo's complaint: Styron and the politics of self-parody / Ralph Tutt.