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Philip Roth's Rude Truth : The Art of Immaturity /
Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in...
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Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Roth Antagonistes; 2 Immaturity: A Genealogy; 3 Ancestors and Relatives: The Game of Appropriation and the Sacrifice of Assimilation; 4 "A very slippery subject": The Counterlife as Pivot; 5 Letting Go, or How to Lead a Stupid Life: Sabbath's Nakedness; 6 Being Game in The Human Stain; 7 The Two Philips; Coda: "The stars are indispensable"; Notes; Works Cited; Index.