Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)

Hermione (Wolfson College Lee

ISBN 10: 0415562414 / ISBN 13: 9780415562416

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2009, 2009

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Neuware - A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415562414
• ISBN 13: 9780415562416
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 211W x 140H x 12D millimeters 211 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 204 grams

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Synopsis

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, Checkov, 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.

About the Author

Wolfson College, Oxford