TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jane Statlander
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453900567
TI  - Philip Roth’s Postmodern American Romance
T2  - Critical Essays on Selected Works- Foreword by Derek Parker Royal
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0056-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050887
N2  - The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth’s work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth’s contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth’s Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.
KW  - Historical Romance, Postmodernism, Jewish-American writers, Criticism, American Literature
LA  - English
ER  -