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Author | : Lisa Kastl |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2014-01-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3656579989 |
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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Anglistik), course: Jewish-American Literature, language: English, abstract: At a first glance The Counterlife by Philip Roth seems to present a variety of stereotypes or roles to its readers. Like in the quote by Shakespeare to Roth these stereotypes are very similar to social roles, connected to social expectations and environment. Roth draws upon epitomes from the domestic area, when he is describing housewives and husbands, he finds them in the field of professional labour when talking about dentists, lawyers or the professional writer and he most vividly depicts them in the religious context when he is observing what the American Jew distinguished from the English or at other the Israeli Jew and as well when he is describing them in opposition to Christians or more Gentiles. However it would not do Roth’s writing justice to leave the analysis to this. His character presentation is far more elaborate than a mere construction of stereotypes from the view-point of a Jewish American author.
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466846410 |
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award The Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Every major character (and most of the minor ones) is investigating, debating, and arguing the possibility of remaking the future. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through all the landscapes, familiar and foreign, where these people are seeking self-transformation, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and to reshape history. Yet his is hardly the only voice. This is a novel in which speaking out with force and lucidity appears to be the imperative of every life. There is Henry, the forty-year-old New Jersey dentist, who risks a quintuple bypass operation in order to escape the coronary medication that renders him sexually impotent. There is Maria, the wellborn young Englishwoman, who invites the disdain of her family by marrying the American she knows will be lease acceptable in Gloucestershire. There is Lippmann, the Israeli settlement leader, who contends that "everything is possible for the Jew if only he does not give ground." The action in The Counterlife ranges from a dentist's office in quiet suburban New Jersey to a genteel dining table in a tradition-bound English village, from a Christmas carol service in London's West End to a Sabbath evening celebration in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.
Author | : Ira Nadel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 0199846103 |
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This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.
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Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
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ISBN | : 1621968529 |
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Author | : Debra B. Shostak |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781570035425 |
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Looking at Philip Roth's writing life as a "book of voices," Debra Shostak listens in on the conversations that this prominent American novelist has conducted with himself and his times over forty years and twenty-four books. She finds that while Roth frequently shifts perspectives, he repeatedly returns to interrelated questions of cultural history, literary history, and, especially, selfhood.
Author | : Benjamin Schreier |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479895849 |
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Examines the works of key Jewish American authors to explore how the concept of identity is put to work by identity-based literary study.
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 009930791X |
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Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
Author | : Brett Ashley Kaplan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150132473X |
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"Uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problematics of victimization, gender, racism and anti-Semitism"--
Author | : Aimee L. Pozorski |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739170627 |
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Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2001-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375726349 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."