Philip Roth
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Philip Roth
（Routledge revivals）
Routledge, 2010, c1982
- : pbk
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Note
"This edition includes a new introduction by the author"
Originally published: London : Methuen, 1982
Bibliography: p. 89-95
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, Chekov, 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.
Table of Contents
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
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