Philip Roth and the Jews (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

Cooper, Alan

ISBN 10: 0791429105 / ISBN 13: 9780791429105

Editore: State University of New York Pre, 1996

Riguardo questo articolo

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Codice articolo S_346507030

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Philip Roth and the Jews (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
• Editore: State University of New York Pre
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791429105
• ISBN 13: 9780791429105
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would-be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other's signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth's "egoism" is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the "Jewish" works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth's own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return-the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years-is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.

Informazioni sugli autori

Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the college's faculty leader.

Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the college’s faculty leader.