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Record Nr.

UNISA996552354103316

Autore

Brauner David <1968->

Titolo

Howard Jacobson / / David Brauner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2021

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-0151-3

1-5261-0149-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource 243 p..)

Collana

Contemporary British Novelists

Disciplina

305.8924

Soggetti

Antisemitism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Being funny': comedy, the anti-pastoral and literary politics -- 'Being men': masculinity, mortality and sexual politics -- 'Being Jewish': Philip Roth, antisemitism and the Holocaust -- Afterword -- Select bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.