Philip Roth

by Brauner, David

• ISBN13: 9780719074257
• ISBN10: 0719074258
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading 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.

Author Biography

David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews inZuckerman Bound

The ‘credible incredible’ and the ‘incredible credible’: generic experimentation inMy Life as a Man,The Counterlife, The Facts, DeceptionandOperation Shylock

Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity inSabbath’s Theater

History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ""American Trilogy""

Flights of fancy and fantasies of flight

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