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Philip Roth American pastoral, The human stain, The plot against America edited by Debra Shostak.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
- Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roth, Philip. American pastoral.
- Roth, Philip.
- Roth, Philip. Human stain.
- Roth, Philip. Plot against America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London New York, NY Continuum [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays on Philip Roth offering critical readings and assessments of texts. It illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. It is of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of American and Canadian fiction.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Roth's America / Debra Shostak
- "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting history in American Pastoral / David Brauner
- Critique of the pastoral, utopia, and the American dream in American Pastoral / Andrew Gordon
- America's haunted house: The racial and national uncanny in American Pastoral / Jennifer Glaser
- Race, recognition, and responsibility in The Human Stain / Dean Franco
- Possessed by the past: history, nostalgia, and language in The Human Stain / Catherine Morley
- "The pointless meaningfulness of living": Illluminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter / Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
- Just folks homesteading: Roth's doubled plots against America / Brett Ashley Kaplan
- My life as a boy: The Plot Against America / Elaine M. Kauvar
- Autobiography and history in Roth's The Plot Against America, or What happened when Hitler came to New Jersey / Timothy Parrish
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- \Introduction: Roth's America
- Part 1: American Pastoral
- Introduction to Part 1
- 2 "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting History in American Pastoral, David Brauner
- 3. The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral, Andrew Gordon
- 4. America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral, Jennifer Glaser
- Part II: The Human Stain
- Introduction to Part 2
- 5. Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain, Dean Franco
- 6. Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain, Catherine Morley
- 7. "The Pointless Meaningfulness of Living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter, Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
- Part III: The Plot Against America
- Introduction to Part 3
- 8. Just Folks Homesteading: Roth's Doubled Plots Against America ,Brett Ashley Kaplan
- 9. My Life as a Boy: The Plot Against America, Elaine M. Kauvar
- 10. Autobiography and History in The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey, Timothy Parrish
- Collected Notes
- Works Cited
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 161-185)
- ISBN:
- 9786613089212
- 9781472542694
- 147254269X
- 9781441127297
- 1441127291
- 9781283089210
- 1283089211
- 9781441171467
- 1441171460
- OCLC:
- 721194844
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