عنوان

Philip Roth and the Jews /

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0791429091 (HC : acid-free paper)

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0791429105 (PB : acid-free paper)

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9780791429099 (HC : acid-free paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791429105 (PB : acid-free paper)

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Title Proper

Philip Roth and the Jews /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alan Cooper.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 319 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.

Text of Note

1. The Ironic and the Irate -- 2. Starting Out -- 3. Biography versus the Biographical -- 4. Duty before Rage -- 5. The Alex Perplex -- 6. Absurdities: Post-Portnoy Seventies -- 7. The Most Offensive Piece Roth Ever Wrote -- 8. Watershed -- 9. Zuckerman Bound -- 10. Zuckerroth -- 11. Operation Shylock -- 12. Master Baiter: Sabbath's Theater -- 13. Irony Board.

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Text of Note

In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other's signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth's "egoism" is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the "Jewish" works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth's own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return - the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years - is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.

Roth, Philip-- Characters-- Jews.

Roth, Philip-- Criticism and interpretation.

Roth, Philip-- Religion.

Jewish fiction-- History and criticism.

Jews in literature.

Judaism in literature.

Class number

Book number

Cooper, Alan,1932-

Date of Transaction

20140218103059.0

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