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Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth /
The first comprehensive assessment of Philip Roth's later novels, Mocking the Age offers rich and insightful readings that explore how these extraordinary works satirize our contemporary culture. From The Ghost Writer to The Plot Against America, Roth uses humor to address deadly serious matter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
- American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov
- I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce
- The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk
- The dying animal : pleasure is our subject
- The plot against America : paranoia or possibility?
- Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering.