Philip Roth and the Jews (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Cooper, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791429105 ISBN 13: 9780791429105

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewish community and contemporary Jewish writers.

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Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the college's faculty leader.

Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the college’s faculty leader.

Reviews

Cooper (York Coll., CUNY) has written a fascinating study of Philip Roth, placing him as the premier writer of the Jewish experience in America. All the "corruption and vulgarity and treachery of American life" and the attempt to live as a Jew and as a free, unsponsored person is present in Roth's fiction. Cooper discusses Roth's work from his early college writings to his latest, National Book Award-winning work, Sabbath's Theater (LJ 7/95; see LJ's Best Books of 1995, p. 46-50). Cooper presents the critical reaction to Roth?both literary and Jewish?as an integral part of Roth's biography and evolution as an artist. For Cooper, the eruption of the "bad" and the search for identity in Roth's art are the keys to his important and liberating voice. An insightful study, essential for literature collections.?Gene Shaw, NYPL
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Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791429105
• ISBN 13: 9780791429105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319