Jewish anxiety and the novels of Philip Roth

Author(s)

• Kaplan, Brett Ashley

Bibliographic Information

Jewish anxiety and the novels of Philip Roth

Brett Ashley Kaplan

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

• : hbk.

Note

Summary: "Uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problematics of victimization, gender, racism and anti-Semitism"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-199) and index

Contents of Works

• 1: Jewish Anxiety: "Goodbye Columbus," "Eli, The Fanatic," and Portnoy's Complaint
• 2: Spectres of Roth: The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost, and Zuckerman Unbound
• 3: Double-Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock
• 4: The American Berserk: Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral
• 5: Playing it Any Way You Like: The Human Stain
• 6: Counterfactual Terror: The Plot Against America
• Conclusion: What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank

Details

• NCID: BB21442777
• ISBN:
  • 9781623562946
• LCCN: 2014034648
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 204 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3568.O855
  • DC23 : 813/.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Judaism and literature
  • LCSH : Anxiety in literature
  • FREE : Literary criticism -- American -- general
  • FREE : Social science -- Jewish studies