Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance
Critical Essays on Selected Works- Foreword by Derek Parker Royal
300th Edition
Published on 3. March 2011
109 pages
978-1-4539-0056-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance
Critical Essays on Selected Works- Foreword by Derek Parker Royal
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11/2010
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Peter Lang Verlag
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Jane Statlander received her PhD in American literature and culture from the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia. She is currently Professor of English at Miami International University of Art and Design.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword ix
- Chapter One. Introduction 1
- Chapter Two. Snow Job 23
- Chapter Three. Conversion Hysteria 37
- Chapter Four. Location, Location, Location 55
- Chapter Five. Displacement Activity 91
