ISBN: 9780791499641

In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experienc… Mehr…

In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would-be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other's signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth's egoism is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the Jewish works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth's own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return—the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years—is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them. Digital Content>E-books>Religion,Inspiration>Judaica>Judaica Hist,Th, State University of New York Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780791499641

by Alan Cooper, PRINT ISBN: 9780791429099 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780791499641 Additional ISBNs: 9780791429099|9780791429105, 0791429091|0791429105 State University of New York Press (SUNY Press) e… Mehr…

by Alan Cooper, PRINT ISBN: 9780791429099 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780791499641 Additional ISBNs: 9780791429099|9780791429105, 0791429091|0791429105 State University of New York Press (SUNY Press) eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Suny Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780791499641

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: State University of New York Press], Seiten: 319, State University of New York Press, 2012

2012, ISBN: 9780791499641

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: State University of New York Press], State University of New York Press, 2012