Philip Roth / / David Brauner

• Autore: Brauner David <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature; Literature: History & Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish; Literature: history & criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: American novelist; Bret Easton Ellis; Howard Jacobson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Philip Roth; Stanley Elkin; Thomas Pynchon; Tim O'Brien; paradox; rhetorical device
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Philip Roth
• ISBN: 0-7190-7425-8; 1-78170-093-1; 1-84779-164-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791951903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary American & Canadian Writers