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Lee, Hermione (Wolfson College, Oxford)
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 novelist?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, Chekov, 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 Roth?s comic brashness and bravura.
96 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 15, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415567992 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 104 |
| Dimensions | 132 × 198 × 7 mm · 124 g |
| Language | English |
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