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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author 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 who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways. At the heart of this book are a number of detailed and nuanced readings of Roth’s works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynchon, Tim O’Brien, Brett Easton Ellis, Stanley Elkin, Howard Jacobson and Jonathan Safran Foer. Brauner identifies as a thread running through all of Roth’s work the use of paradox, both as a rhetorical device and as an organising intellectual and ideological principle.

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This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction.The volume is divided into 3 parts American Jewish Fiction; British Jewish Fiction; and International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work.

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Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This spell binding Companion highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. Each expert contributor analyses one of the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situates it in historical context. Anglophone Jewish fiction is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks and areas of study including transatlanticism, transnationalism and globalisation; ethnicity and multiculturalism; post colonial studies, feminist studies and queer studies. The 31 essays are by contributors including Vicki Aarons (Trinity University, Texas), Eitan Bar Yosef (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva), Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi, Oxford), Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading), Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia), Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) and Aranzazu Usandizaga (University of Barcelona). Highlights the rich diversity of the field and identifies its key themes, including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation and anti Semitism Zionism. It analyses the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situates them in historical context; discusses the place of Anglophone Jewish fiction in relation to:transatlanticism, transnationalism and globalisation; ethnicity and multiculturalism; post colonial studies, feminist studies and queer studies and the 29 essays are by contributors including Vicki Aarons (Trinity University, Texas), Efraim Sicher (Ben Gurion University, Sasha Senderovich (Princeton), Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading), Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), Ruth Gilbert (University of Winchester), Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne), Sandra Singer (University of Guelph).

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