The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Parrish is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University. Zusammenfassung Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought. With its chronology and guide to further reading! this book will be essential for new and returning Roth readers! students and scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Roth at mid-career Timothy Parrish; 1. American-Jewish identity in Roth's short fiction Victoria Aarons; 2. Roth, literary influence, and postmodernism Derek Parker Royal; 3. Zuckerman Bound: the celebrant of silence Donald M. Kartiganer; 4. Roth and the Holocaust Michael Rothberg; 5. Roth and Israel Emily Miller Budick; 6. Roth's doubles Josh Cohen; 7. Revisiting Roth's psychoanalysts Jeffrey Berman; 8. Roth and gender Debra Shostak; 9. Roth and ethnic identity Timothy Parrish; 10. Mourning and melancholia in Roth's American Trilogy Mark Shechner; 11. Roth's autobiographical writings Hana Wirth-Nesher; Selected bibliography and suggestions for further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Parrish
• Assisted by: Timothy Parrish (Editor), Timothy (Texas Christian University) Parrish (Editor), Parrish Timothy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780521682930
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68293-0
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, The Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000