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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound
3. The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock
4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath’s Theater
5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’
6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against America
Afterword

Philip Roth Contemporary American and Canadian

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719074257, 978-0719074257
      ISBN10: 0719074258

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound
      3. The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock
      4. Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath’s Theater
      5. History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’
      6. Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against America
      Afterword

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