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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 |
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- Introduction: Philip Roth's Post-war Americans in a State of Trial Chapter One: Turning Sentences Around: Trial Themes in The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound and The Anatomy Lesson Chapter Two: Before the Law: Operation Shylock: A Confession Chapter Three: Testing "Stories of Old" in American Pastoral Chapter Four: Undoing the Bildungsroman: Cold War Trials in I Married A Communist Chapter Five: Spooking the American National Body in The Human Stain Chapter Six: The Plot Against America and the Trials of the American Constitution Conclusion: Nemeses: Reworking the Trial for Post-war America Notes Bibliography.