Philip Roth S Postmodern American Romance
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Philip Roth S Postmodern American Romance
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Author : Jane Statlander
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2010-11
Philip Roth S Postmodern American Romance written by Jane Statlander and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.
Philip Roth S Postmodern American Romance
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Author : Jane Statlander
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
Philip Roth S Postmodern American Romance written by Jane Statlander and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with American fiction categories.
The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.
Romantic Postmodernism In American Fiction
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Author : Eberhard Alsen
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1996
Romantic Postmodernism In American Fiction written by Eberhard Alsen and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American fiction categories.
Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.
A Political Companion To Philip Roth
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Author : Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2017-06-23
A Political Companion To Philip Roth written by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with Political Science categories.
Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth's first novel, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he followed this stunning debut with more than thirty books -- earning another National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. Throughout his career, Roth delighted in controversy but often denied that he sought a role as a public intellectual. His statements and vigorous support of suppressed writers in communist Czechoslovakia, however, tell a different story. In A Political Companion to Philip Roth, established and rising scholars explore the myriad political themes in the author's work. Several of the contributors examine Roth's writings on Jewish identity, Zionism, and American attitudes toward Israel, as well as the influence of his work in other countries. Others investigate Roth's articulation of the roles of gender and sexuality in US culture. This interdisciplinary examination offers a more complete portrait of Roth as a public intellectual and cultural icon. Not only will it fill a gap in scholarship, but it will also provide a broader perspective on the nature and purpose of the acclaimed writer's political thought.
Funny You Don T Look Funny
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Author : Jennifer Caplan
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Funny You Don T Look Funny written by Jennifer Caplan and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Humor categories.
Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.
Philip Roth Novels Other Narratives 1986 1991 Loa 185
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Author : Philip Roth
language : en
Publisher: Library of America Philip Roth Edition
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Philip Roth Novels Other Narratives 1986 1991 Loa 185 written by Philip Roth and has been published by Library of America Philip Roth Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Literary Collections categories.
"For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Roth's collected works." "The Counterlife (1986) is a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical novel to date. The subject is people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Illuminating these lives in transition is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence of the writer Nathan Zuckerman." "In 1987, a year after the imaginative extravaganza of The Counterlife, Roth reverses field with The Facts, the first of the "Roth Books." The Facts presents the author's own battles defictionalized and unadorned, and concludes with the unique assault that Roth mounts against his own proficiencies as an autobiographer." "At the center of the second of the Roth Books, Deception (1990), are a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman - trapped with a little child in a loveless upper-middle-class household - who eloquently and minutely reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. With the skill of a brilliant observer of the illicit and the intimate, Roth presents the highly enclosed world of adultery with a directness that has no equal in American fiction." "In the third Roth Book, Patrimony (1991), Philip Roth watches as Herman Roth, his 86-year-old father - famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections - battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, revealing the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished Herman's passionate engagement with life."--BOOK JACKET.
Philip Roth S Rude Truth
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Author : Ross Posnock
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-28
Philip Roth S Rude Truth written by Ross Posnock and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Emerson, Melville, and Henry James, and a late twentieth-century Eastern European one that developed in reaction to totalitarianism. In Philip Roth's Rude Truth--one of the first major studies of Roth's career as a whole--Ross Posnock examines Roth's "mature immaturity" in all its depth and richness. Philip Roth's Rude Truth will force readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted--laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud; Jewish-American regionalist. In dramatic contrast to these caricatures, the Roth who emerges from Posnock's readable and intellectually vibrant study is a great cosmopolitan in the tradition of Henry James and Milan Kundera.
American Fiction In Transition
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Author : Adam Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
American Fiction In Transition written by Adam Kelly and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.
Philip Roth Novels Stories 1959 1962 Loa 157
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Author : Philip Roth
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2005-08-18
Philip Roth Novels Stories 1959 1962 Loa 157 written by Philip Roth and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-18 with Fiction categories.
For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth’s comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America now inaugurates the definitive edition of Roth’s collected works. This first volume presents Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, the book that established Roth’s reputation on publication in 1959 and for which he won the National Book Award, and his first novel, Letting Go (1962). The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany it, including “The Conversion of the Jews” and “Defender of the Faith,” Roth depicts Jewish lives in 1950s America with an unflinching sharpness of observation. In Letting Go, a sprawling novel set largely against the backdrop of Chicago in the 1950s, Roth portrays the moral dilemmas of young people cast precipitously into adulthood, and in the process describes a skein of social and family responsibilities as they are brought into focus by issues of marriage, abortion, adoption, friendship, and career. The novel’s expansiveness provides a wide scope for Roth’s gift for vivid characterization, and in his protagonist Gabe Wallach he creates a nuanced portrait of a responsive young academic whose sense of morality draws him into the ordeals of others with unforeseen consequences. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call It Sleep
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Author : Henry Roth
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Call It Sleep written by Henry Roth and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Fiction categories.
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.