Philip Roth / David Brauner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brauner, David, 1968- author.

Series:

Contemporary American and Canadian writers.

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roth, Philip, 1933-2018--Criticism and interpretation.

Roth, Philip.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading 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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780719074257

0719074258

9781781700938

1781700931

9781847791641

1847791646

OCLC:

818847285