Philip Roth

Informationen zum Autor David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound3. The 'credible incredible' and the 'incredible credible': generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath's Theater5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the 'American Trilogy' 6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Brauner, Brauner David
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2007
• EAN: 9780719074257
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7425-7
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 142 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Contemporary American and Cana; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Categorie: Libri scolastici; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form