Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.
Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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N813.54/785
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English
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x, 219 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness -- From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity -- Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death--raunchy? picaresque? heroic? --...
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2006.
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"The first comprehensive assessment of Philip Roth's later novels, Mocking the Age offers insightful readings that explore how these works satirize our contemporary culture. From The Ghost Writer to The Plot Against America, Roth uses humor to address deadly serious matters, including social and political issues, psychological problems, postmodern...
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Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index.
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N813.54/785
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74VKKKVJ6l8Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKKVJ6l8Z
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0791467104
9780791467091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791467090 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791467107
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813.54
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991021809009702626
