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States of Trial : Manhood in Philip Roth's Post-War America /
This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals upon the nation and American trial-based myths about wholesomeness and regeneration. Roth shows how the ""stories of old"" which moulded American self-making have produced disorderly and disruptive counter-stories, playing themselves out in Jewish men marked by spots and stains where their constituti |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781623562434 1623562430 |