Philip Roth
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Contemporary American & Canadian Writers .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound; 3 The 'credible incredible and the incredible credible': generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock; 4 Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath's Theater; 5 History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the 'American Trilogy' 6 Fantasies of flight and flights of fancy: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against AmericaAfterword; Works cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author 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 who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways. At the heart of this book are a number of detailed and nuanced readings of Roth?s works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynch.
9781847791641
Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century