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1 online resource (185 pages) |
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Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction |
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Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Roth's America Debra Shostak; Part I American Pastoral; CHAPTER 2 "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting History in American Pastoral David Brauner; CHAPTER 3 The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral Andrew Gordon; CHAPTER 4 America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral Jennifer Glaser; Part II The Human Stain |
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CHAPTER 5 Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain Dean FrancoCHAPTER 6 Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain Catherine Morley; CHAPTER 7 "The pointless meaning fulness of living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky; Part III The Plot Against America; CHAPTER 8 Just Folks Homesteading: Roth's Doubled Plots Against America Brett Ashley Kaplan; CHAPTER 9 My Life as a Boy:The Plot Against America Elaine M. Kauvar |
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CHAPTER 10 Autobiography and History in Roth's The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey Timothy ParrishNotes on Chapters; Works Cited; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Philip Roth has been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Philip Roth collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, American Pastoral (1997), The Human Stain (2000), and The Plot Against America (2004). The volume illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. Focusing on such topics as ethnicity, race, the family, trauma, American histo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Roth, Philip fast |
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Roth, Philip, 1933-2018. nta |
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American pastoral. swd |
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Human stain. swd |
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Plot against America. swd |
| Subject |
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literary studies: general.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shostak, Debra B.
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| ISBN |
9781441171467 |
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1441171460 |
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1283089211 |
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9781283089210 |
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9781472542694 |
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147254269X |
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9781441127297 |
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1441127291 |
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