Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals) - Rilegato

Lee, Hermione

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ISBN 10: 0415562414 ISBN 13: 9780415562416

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009

Riassunto

On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.

Roth is a highly literary and referential character and an assessment is made of the conflicting influnces on his work of Kafka, Checkov, Gogol, Henry James, Melville and Henry Youngman, a Jewish nightclub and Vaudeville comic. In addition a close examination of his anxious, revolting, garrulous heroes, their mothers, their marriages, their shrinks, and their shiksas is undertaken and a deep seriousness is discovered, co-existing with Roth’s comic brashness and bravura.

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Contenuti

 1. ‘Are you Finished?’  2. ‘Nathan Dedalus’: Jewish sons, Jewish Novelists, Jewish Jokes  3. ‘Beyond the Pale’: American Reality from the Second World War to Watergate  4. ‘You Must Change Your Life’: Mentors, Doubles and Literary Influences in the Search for Self  5. Finishing

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415562414
• ISBN 13: 9780415562416
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 104
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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