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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Philip Roth"”.
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You Know Nothing of My Work: Reading and Misreading Woody Allen and Philip Roth
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Only An Only Child: Stories
… from writers like Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, Philip Roth, and especially Guy Vanderhaeghe, Only An Only Child forges its own singular path.
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… authors as Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth. Paley, Ozick and Jong challenge the authority of their canonical male counterparts and ridicule their caricatures of Jewish women--particularly that of the ball-breaking "Jewish Mother." Their rewritings and inscriptions of …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
… Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. In the introduction, I provide historical background on the development of the concept of race, Jewish American assimilation, and racial passing. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate that in Mona in the Promised Land, Gish Jen uses an …
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All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire
… free from the shackles of piety. Others, like Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud saw the turning of Judaism into a Thing as establishing dangerous precedents for inter-Jewish relationships. The Baby Boom generation lacked their own take on the turning of Judaism into a Thing; early on they matched …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and Philip Roth (American Pastoral), since all three, written at the century's end, are at once apocalyptic and elegiac in tone, and comprise a useful trilogy tor giving voice to the fracturedness of the American experience. My analysis of the texts …
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Il vero e il convenzionale: rappresentazioni della realtà nel romanzo contemporaneo
… Analisi della produzione recente (dal 1979) di Philip Roth, con particolare enfasi sul ruolo ambiguo del personaggio Nathan Zuckerman e sui dispositivi narrativi di "American Pastoral" (1997), di "El mal de Montano" di Enrique Vila-Matas (2002), di "Troppi paradisi" (2006) di Walter Siti, di …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… (Rabbit Redux and The Witches of Eastwick) and Philip Roth (American Pastoral) use to create a sense of the Sixties in these novels and how they build their characterisation of the times. The exegesis concludes with an account of the creative practice involved in imagining and realising the …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… most committed enthusiasts and literary ‘sons’ - Philip Roth and Martin Amis - took into their own work lessons from Bellow’s visions of friendship.
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… of the literary, as represented in two novels, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084. Each novel narrates a moment in the world revolution of 1968, and through that moment, unfolds themes of revolution, terrorism, and the variety of aftermaths such events called …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… of the literary, as represented in two novels, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084. Each novel narrates a moment in the world revolution of 1968, and through that moment, unfolds themes of revolution, terrorism, and the variety of aftermaths such events called …