Philip Roth

Herausgeber: Shostak, Debra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of original essays on Philip Roth offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of recent texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780826426314
• ISBN-10: 082642631X
• Artikelnr.: 31582920

Autorenporträt

Debra Shostak is Professor of English at The College of Wooster, Ohio. She is author of Philip Roth-Counterlives, Countertexts (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface \ Acknowledgments \ \Introduction: Roth's America \ Part 1:
American Pastoral \ Introduction to Part 1 \ 2 "What was not supposed to
happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened":
Subverting History in American Pastoral, David Brauner \ 3. The Critique of
the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral, Andrew
Gordon \ 4. America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in
American Pastoral, Jennifer Glaser \ Part II: The Human Stain \
Introduction to Part 2 \ 5. Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The
Human Stain, Dean Franco \ 6. Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia,
and Language in The Human Stain, Catherine Morley \ 7. "The Pointless
Meaningfulness of Living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet
Letter, Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky \ Part III: The Plot
Against America \ Introduction to Part 3 \ 8. Just Folks Homesteading:
Roth's Doubled Plots Against America ,Brett Ashley Kaplan \ 9. My Life as a
Boy: The Plot Against America, Elaine M. Kauvar \ 10. Autobiography and
History in The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to
New Jersey, Timothy Parrish \ Collected Notes \ Works Cited \ Further
Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index