Philip Roth

David Brauner

doi:10.7765/9781847791641

This is a study of the contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, it offers a view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways. At the heart of this book are a number of readings of Roth's works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynchon, Tim O'Brien, Bret Easton Ellis, Stanley Elkin, Howard Jacobson and Jonathan Safran Foer. The book identifies as a thread running through all of Roth's work the use of paradox, both as a rhetorical device and as an organising intellectual and ideological principle.

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-v

Epigraph
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Series editors’ foreword
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-20

2 - The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: Judging Jews in <italic>Zuckerman Bound</italic>
pp 21-45

3 - The ‘credible incredible and the incredible credible’: Generic experimentation in <italic>My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception</italic> and <italic>Operation Shylock</italic>
pp 46-121

4 - Old men behaving badly: Morality, mortality and masculinity in <italic>Sabbath’s Theater</italic>
pp 122-147

5 - History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the ‘American Trilogy’
pp 148-185

6 - Fantasies of flight and flights of fancy: Rewriting history and retreating from trauma in <italic>The Plot Against America</italic>
pp 186-217

Afterword
pp 218-224

Works cited
pp 225-236

Index
pp 237-243

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