Philip Roth’s Postmodern American Romance
Critical Essays on Selected Works- Foreword by Derek Parker Royal
©2011
Monographs
XII,
110 Pages
Series:
Twentieth-Century American Jewish Writers, Volume 15
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 110
- Publication Year
- 2011
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433105982
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453900567
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0056-7
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2011 (March)
- Keywords
- Historical Romance Postmodernism Jewish-American writers Criticism American Literature
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XII, 110 pp.
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