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Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages

Author : Velichka D. Ivanova
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604978570
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages written by Velichka D. Ivanova and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book like this is long overdue because not many are aware of the numerous intersections between Philip Roth's fiction and world literature. In highlighting these intersections and uneasy passages, this comparative approach offers an important contribution to Philip Roth studies as well as to comparative literary study in general. The fourteen chapters on this book summon Roth's intertextual links to authors ranging from the anonymous writer of the medieval play Everyman, through Thoreau, Hawthorne, Crane, Ellison, Coover, and the New York intellectuals in the United States, to Swift, Chekhov, Svevo, Kafka, Schulz, Gombrowicz, Camus, and Klíma in Europe, and on to Coetzee in South Africa. The book does not deal with all the works in Roth's canon, but it offers a selection of works representing the different stages of Roth's development as a writer. By offering new readings of both well-studied and lesser-studied works, sometimes in unexpected company, the book discloses the critical difference that comparative scholarship can affect. The uneasy passages the book opens will not exhaust the numerous intersections between Roth and the work of other writers. The book's contribution is to place Roth's fiction firmly in a larger transnational context. Far from insular, Roth's work appears as deeply rooted in the American canon while at the same time showing a remarkable openness, a persistent need for contact with his European forebears, and true engagement with contemporary world literature. The transnational perspective of the book makes it important for the rapidly growing field of transatlantic and transnational American studies. The book will be value to collections in American literature and Jewish studies, comparative literature and criticism, and transatlantic and transnational American studies.

Philip Roth

Author : Derek Parker Royal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313018030
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth written by Derek Parker Royal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all contemporary American writers, Philip Roth is perhaps the most ambitious, yet he is one of the most underrepresented in terms of critical attention given his place in American letters. Unlike many aging novelists, whose production and creative mastery wane over time, Roth has demonstrated a unique ability not only to sustain his literary output, but also to surpass the scope and talent inherent in his previous writings. He has been awarded many literary honors, and in the 1990s alone he won every major American book award. This long-overdue collection of essays covers Roth's entire output and links themes across works, highlighting those thoughts and ideas that recur frequently. Unlike older introductions to Roth's writings, this volume will provide up-to-date coverage of all his works. Each chapter introduces the work or works under discussion, provides a brief summary of the story, and moves on to a lively analysis of its various literary elements and its significance in Roth's overall body of work. While each chapter focuses on the central issues in the specific work, several larger themes that run throughout many of his writings will be addressed, including the rise of suburbanization in post-war America, the problems and prominence of the family, American (Jewish) ethnicity, comedy and satire, the costs of literary celebrity, the promises and failures of the American dream, and others. Newcomers to and fans alike will find everything they need in this volume to build a better appreciation of Roth's work.

Philip Roth

Author : Debra B. Shostak
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035425
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth written by Debra B. Shostak and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at Philip Roth's writing life as a "book of voices," Debra Shostak listens in on the conversations that this prominent American novelist has conducted with himself and his times over forty years and twenty-four books. She finds that while Roth frequently shifts perspectives, he repeatedly returns to interrelated questions of cultural history, literary history, and, especially, selfhood.

Philip Roth in Context

Author : Maggie McKinley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108489294
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth in Context written by Maggie McKinley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work. It opens with an overview of Roth's life and literary influences, before turning to important critical, geographical, theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts. It closes with focused meditations on the various iterations of Roth's legacy, from the screen to international translations of his work to his signature stylistic imprint on American letters. Together, all of these chapters reveal Roth's range as a writer, as he interrogates American national identity and history, and explores the dimensions of the individual self.

Philip Roth

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415562416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth written by Hermione Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 novelistâe(tm)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 Rothâe(tm)s comic brashness and bravura.

Philip Roth Considered

Author : Steven Milowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138978393
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth Considered written by Steven Milowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

Author : Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813169305
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Political Companion to Philip Roth written by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Demonstrates powerfully the manifold ways in which Roth’s writing often helped to shape, and was in turn shaped by, the larger political climate.” —David Brauner, author of Contemporary American Fiction Widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and acclaimed writers, Philip Roth received the National Book Award for his first novel, Goodbye, Columbus, and 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—yet 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. It not only fills a gap in scholarship, but also provides a broader perspective on the nature and purpose of the acclaimed writer’s political thought. “Addresses a void in discussions of Roth’s work by looking at his thinking on political matters, particularly as they involve identity, the American Jewish experience, Israel, and Cold War fears of communism.” —Choice

Philip Roth in Context

Author : Maggie McKinley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108809553
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth in Context written by Maggie McKinley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work. It opens with an overview of Roth's life and literary influences, before turning to important critical, geographical, theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts. It closes with focused meditations on the various iterations of Roth's legacy, from the screen to international translations of his work to his signature stylistic imprint on American letters. Together, all of these chapters reveal Roth's range as a writer, as he interrogates American national identity and history, and explores the dimensions of the individual self.

Philip Roth

Author : Bernard F. Rodgers
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth written by Bernard F. Rodgers and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Imagination in Transit

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9781850757825
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Imagination in Transit written by Stephen Wade and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study concentrates on the development as a novelist of the American writer Philip Roth from realistic approaches, to the experimental writing of Deception and his latest work, Operation Shylock. The book sets out to relate Roth's work to American Jewish literary traditions and styles, traces some sources and influences on his work from Dostoievski to Kafka, and attempts an assessment of where his work stands in terms of quality and subject-matter in the current American literary scene."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Roth after Eighty

Author : David Gooblar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498514669
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Roth after Eighty written by David Gooblar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth’s works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth’s legacy—particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.

Fine Meshwork

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654677
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Fine Meshwork written by Dan O'Brien and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as “a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction.” The phrase “fine meshwork” can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, including, most illuminatingly, Roth’s. Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Roth and O’Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In Fine Meshwork, Dan O’Brien investigates the shared concerns of these two authors, now regarded as literary icons in their home countries. He traces their fifty-year literary friendship and the striking parallels in their books and reception, bringing together what, at first glance, seem to be quite disparate milieus: the largely feminist and Irish scholarship on O’Brien with Jewish and American perspectives on Roth. In doing so, and in considering them in a transnational context, he argues that the intertwined nature of their writing symbolizes the far-ranging symbiosis between Irish literature and its American—particularly Jewish American—counterpart.

Philip Roth

Author : Gabe Welsch
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 : 9780791074466
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth written by Gabe Welsch and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novelist Philip Roth often features main protagonist Nathan Zuckerman in his semi-autobiographical novels. Several of his most famou include Portnoy's Complaint and National Book Award winner Goodbye, Columbus.

The Plot Against America

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547345313
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Plot Against America written by Philip Roth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.” — The New York Times Book Review

The Prague Orgy

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593684974
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Prague Orgy written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism. The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art. This Vintage edition is the first paperback publication of the epilogue.

NFL Football

Author : Richard C. Crepeau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052463
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book NFL Football written by Richard C. Crepeau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.

The World Republic of Letters

Author : Pascale Casanova
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013452
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book The World Republic of Letters written by Pascale Casanova and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.