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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791951903321

Autore

Brauner David <1968->

Titolo

Philip Roth / / David Brauner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2007

ISBN

0-7190-7425-8

1-78170-093-1

1-84779-164-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish

Literature: history & criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound; 3 The 'credible incredible and the incredible credible': generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock; 4 Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath's Theater; 5 History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the 'American Trilogy'

6 Fantasies of flight and flights of fancy: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword; Works cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of



Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways. At the heart of this book are a number of detailed and nuanced readings of Roth's works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynch