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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Philip Roth. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005 (OCoLC)607614014 |
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| Named Person: | Philip Roth; Philip Roth; Philip Roth |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Derek Parker Royal |
| ISBN: | 0275983633 9780275983635 |
| OCLC Number: | 57068574 |
| Description: | ix, 303 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Still (resonant, relevant and) crazy after all these years : Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories / Jessica G. Rabin -- Female hysteria and sisterhood in Letting go and When she was good / Julie Husband -- "Getting in your retaliation first" : narrative strategies in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner -- Philip Roth, MVP : Our gang, The breast, and The great American novel / Anne Margaret Daniel -- My life as a man : "the surprises manhood brings / Margaret Smith -- How to tell a true ghost story : The ghost writer and the case of Anne Frank / Aimee Pozorski -- The ghosts of Zuckerman's past : the Zuckerman bound series / Alexis Kate Wilson / En-countering pastorals in The counterlife / Bonnie Lyons -- Caught between The facts and Deception / Richard Tuerk -- The measure of all things : Patrimony / Benjamin Hedin -- Operation Shylock : double double Jewish trouble / Elaine B. Safer -- "A little stranger in the house" : madness and identity in Sabbath's theater / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Pastoral dreams and national identity in American pastoral and I married a communist / Derek Parker Royal -- Becoming black : Zuckerman's bifurcating self in The human stain / Tim Parrish -- Professing desire : the Kepesh novels / Kevin R. West -- It can happen here, or all in the family values : surviving The plot against America / Alan Cooper -- The "written world" of Philip Roth's nonfiction / Darren Hughes. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Derek Parker Royal ; foreword by Daniel Walden. |
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Abstract:
While each chapter focuses on the central issues in the specific work, several larger themes that run throughout many of his writings will be addressed, including the rise of suburbanization in post-war America, the problems and prominence of the family, American (Jewish) ethnicity, comedy and satire, the costs of literary celebrity, the.
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"It is a book of relevations, in which original, sympathetic and well-informed readings of Roth's major works...provide fascinating insights into the achievement of one of America's most important writers that will be of interest to both students and scholars." - Bernard F. Rodgers Jr., Emily H. Fisher Professor of Literature, Simon's Rock College" Read more...
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