03560nam 22005293 450 991100928750332120231110230741.09781643363110(electronic bk.)9781643363097(MiAaPQ)EBC6922320(Au-PeEL)EBL6922320(CKB)21397535000041(OCoLC)1296690024(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98343(Perlego)3054668(EXLCZ)992139753500004120220317d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnderstanding Philip Roth1st ed.Columbia :University of South Carolina Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (154 pages)Understanding Contemporary American Literature Print version: Shipe, Matthew A. Understanding Philip Roth Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,c2022 9781643363097 Understanding Philip Roth -- Early works : from Goodbye, Columbus to My life as a man -- The writing life : Zuckerman bound, The counterlife, and Exit ghost -- Sex and the serious life : The Kepesh trilogy -- Personality crisis : The "Roth" tetralogy -- Back in the USA : Sabbath's theater and the American trilogy -- Late works : The plot against America and the Nemeses tetralogy."Philip Roth (1933-2018) was one of the most prolific, prominent, and controversial writers of his generation. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner awards, and many others; his work is the subject of Philip Roth Studies, a journal published by Purdue UP in cooperation with the Philip Roth Society since 2005; his novels are frequently taught in undergraduate literature courses. In Understanding Philip Roth, Matthew Shipe offers one of the first single-authored critical overviews of Roth's complete oeuvre, aimed at undergraduates and general readers of Roth's works. By emphasizing the connections between Roth's early and later work, Shipe aims to offer a more complete portrait of how Roth's fiction evolved over the course of his career and how it engaged its historical moment(s). Seven chapters cover Roth's biography and major themes (Jewish identity, male sexual desire, American exceptionalism) and his novels in thematic, roughly chronological groups (the first fifteen years; the Nathan Zuckerman novels, writing, and identity; the Kepesh trilogy and intersections between art, sex, and gender politics; Roth as a character in his own work; Roth's exploration of American history; later works and essays)"--Provided by publisher.Understanding Contemporary American Literature PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality)bisacshLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th CenturybisacshAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismPSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality)LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century.American literatureHistory and criticism.813/.54LIT024050PSY016000bisacshShipe Matthew A1825797MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911009287503321Understanding Philip Roth4393701UNINA