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Roth, Philip - 1933–, American author, b. Newark, N.J., grad. Univ. of Chicago (M.A., 1955). His writings, noted for their irony and themes of identity, rebellion, and sexuality, deal largely with middle-class Jewish-American life. Roth gained his initial literary reputation with the short-story collection Good-bye Columbus (1959). Portnoy's Complaint (1969), his most famous novel, has

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Philip Roth (Literary Criticism) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 178 pgs.

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...Modern Critical Views Modern Critical Views PHILIP ROTH Modern Critical Views PHILIP ROTH Edited with an introduction by Harold...of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data...
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Authors (Chap. XI "Polymorphous Roth") » Read Now
by Karl Miller. 218 pgs.

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This book is a defense of authorship--authorship whose public works proceed from and incorporate private lives. Examining the question of the presence of authors in their writings, and of certain authors in the writings of others, Miller focuses on the memorial writings of Louisa Stuart (1757-1851)...
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This book is a defense of authorship--authorship whose public works proceed from and incorporate private lives. Examining the question of the presence of authors in their writings, and of certain authors in the writings of others, Miller focuses on the memorial writings of Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) and Primo Levi, and the work of a wide variety of other authors, including Cervantes, Samuel Richardson, V.S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ackroyd, Milan Kundera, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and James Kelman. Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the London Review of Books, the book also touches on the opinions and idiosyncrasy of authors; imitation, replication, and pastiche; ghosts; Hamlet and its enduring popularity; recent authorial crises and case histories; and literary journalism.
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Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author » Read Now
by Derek Parker Royal. 304 pgs.

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Philip Roth at Century's End, in New England Review » Read Now
by Edward Alexander. 8 pgs.

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...Edward Alexander Philip Roth at Centurys End Philip Roth has linked his two most recent novels, American...troubled relationship between Irving Howe and Philip Roth (who...
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Transgression in the Fiction of Philip Roth, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Robert M. Greenberg. 20 pgs.

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...Transgression in the fiction of Philip Roth. by Robert M. Greenberg In The Anatomy Lesson (1983) Philip Roth provides an explanation for Nathan...establish the...
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Is It "Good-For-The-Jews or No-Good-For-The-Jews"? Philip Roth's Registry of Jewish Consciousness, in Shofar » Read Now
by Victoria Aarons. 12 pgs.

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...1 Philip Roth, "The Conversion of the Jews...perhaps, Irving Howe essay, "Philip Roth Reconsidered," in Commentary...1964 ), p. 132). 5 Philip Roth, "Defender of the...
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Texts, Lives, and Bellybuttons: Philip Roth's Operation Shylock and the Renegotiation of Subjectivity, in Shofar » Read Now
by Derek Parker Royal. 18 pgs.

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...an exaggeration to state that Philip Roth is obsessed with the play between...of the "walking text" that is Philip Roth. One of the recurring themes in...read Roth. "Which...
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Special Issue on Philip Roth, in Shofar » Read Now
by Jay L. Halio. 6 pgs.

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...Special Issue on Philip Roth Jay L. Halio University of Delaware...for his novel American Pastoral , Philip Roth was recognized as among the best novelists...named "Philip"...
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Bobbie Ann Mason and Philip Roth: Two Great-American-Novel Concepts Pieced in One Big Picture, in Shofar » Read Now
by Nora Ruth Roberts. 9 pgs.

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...Bobbie Ann Mason and Philip Roth: Two Great-American-Novel Concepts...purpose in this essay is to place Philip Roth American Pastoral in a context...American Pastoral (...
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Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry (Part One "Sigmund Freud's Tough Jewish Fantasy, Philip Roth's, and Mine") » Read Now
by Paul Breines. 266 pgs.

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...also those of Sigmund Freud and Philip Roth, who are themselves analysts of...writings of both Arthur Koestler and Philip Roth are the ones I have liked best...immodest...
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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s (Chap. 7 "Confessions of Philip Roth") » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 208 pgs.

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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full...
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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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Return to the Breast: The Body, the Masculine Subject, and Philip Roth, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Debra Shostak. 19 pgs.

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...Body, the Masculine Subject, and Philip Roth by DEBRA SHOSTAK When Philip Roth published The Breast in 1972, the...apparently external source, an "other Philip Roth" who...
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel (Chap. 7 "Philip Roth: The Schlemiel as Fictional Biographer") » Read Now
by Sanford Pinsker. 202 pgs.

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...Schlemiels 111 7 Philip Roth: The Schlemiel as Fictional...what I now see as "omissions -- Philip Roth, Woody Allen -- fall neatly into...Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow...
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A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory (Chap. 5 "Philip Roth's Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank") » Read Now
by Norman Ravvin. 194 pgs.

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Focusing on the way Jewish history -- particularly the Holocaust -- and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb...
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Focusing on the way Jewish history -- particularly the Holocaust -- and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers as well as places their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory.
Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb.
At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.
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Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor (Chap. 9 "Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Freud and Humor of the Repressed") » Read Now
by Avner Ziv, Anat Zajdman. 206 pgs.

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses Jewish humor as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Scholars from England, France, the United States, Denmark, Israel, and Australia explore Jewish humor from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, literature, psychology...
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses Jewish humor as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Scholars from England, France, the United States, Denmark, Israel, and Australia explore Jewish humor from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and religion. Individual essays focus on linkages with language, religion, and historical traditions; study characteristics such as gallows humor, self-disparagement, and stereotyping; analyze distinctions between humor in Israel and in the diaspora; and discuss the contributions of Jewish humorists and comic performers and Jewish theorists of humor.
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"And Here [Their] Troubles Began": The Legacy of the Holocaust in the Writing of Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth, in CLIO » Read Now
by Sophia Lehmann. 24 pgs.

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...Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth. by SOPHIA LEHMANN...testimony. And in The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth has Nathan Zuckerman create a fantasy...presentation. In...