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Promiscuous : Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness / Bernard Avishai.
LIBRA PS3568.O855 P6733 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avishai, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roth, Philip, 1933-2018. Portnoy's complaint.
- Roth, Philip.
- Satire, American--History and criticism.
- Satire, American.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Prologue, Teaching notes
- A novel in the form of a confession : the enigma of Portnoy, who is not Roth
- Really icky : Portnoy as satirist
- "The best kind" : Portnoy as the object of satire
- Punch line : psychoanalysis as the object of satire
- Conclusion, You are not true.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300151909
- 030015190X
- OCLC:
- 757133377
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