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" Philip Roth : "
[edited by] Derek Parker Royal ; foreword by Daniel Walden.
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BL
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1023094
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b777464
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| Title & Author
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Philip Roth : : new perspectives on an American author /\ [edited by] Derek Parker Royal ; foreword by Daniel Walden.
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn. :: Praeger,, 2005.
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1 online resource (ix, 303 pages)
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0313018030
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: 9780313018039
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0275983633
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9780275983635
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index.
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| Contents
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Still (resonant, relevant and) crazy after all these years: Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories / Jessica G. Rabin -- Female hysteria and sisterhood in Letting go and When she was good / Julie Husband -- "Getting in your retaliation first": narrative strategies in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner -- Philip Roth, MVP: Our gang, The breast, and The great American novel / Anne Margaret Daniel -- My life as a man: "the surprises manhood brings / Margaret Smith -- How to tell a true ghost story: The ghost writer and the case of Anne Frank / Aimee Pozorski -- The ghosts of Zuckerman's past: the Zuckerman bound series / Alexis Kate Wilson / En-countering pastorals in The counterlife / Bonnie Lyons -- Caught between The facts and Deception / Richard Tuerk -- The measure of all things: Patrimony / Benjamin Hedin -- Operation Shylock: double double Jewish trouble / Elaine B. Safer -- "A little stranger in the house": madness and identity in Sabbath's theater / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Pastoral dreams and national identity in American pastoral and I married a communist / Derek Parker Royal -- Becoming black: Zuckerman's bifurcating self in The human stain / Tim Parrish -- Professing desire: the Kepesh novels / Kevin R. West -- It can happen here, or all in the family values: surviving The plot against America / Alan Cooper -- The "written world" of Philip Roth's nonfiction / Darren Hughes.
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| Abstract
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Of all contemporary American writers, Philip Roth is perhaps the most ambitious, yet he is one of the most underrepresented in terms of critical attention given his place in American letters. Unlike many aging novelists, whose production and creative mastery wane over time, Roth has demonstrated a unique ability not only to sustain his literary output, but also to surpass the scope and talent inherent in his previous writings. He has been awarded many literary honors, and in the 1990s alone he won every major American book award. This long-overdue collection of essays covers Roth's entire outp.
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Roth, Philip-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Roth, Philip-- Critique et interprétation.
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Roth, Philip.
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Roth, Philip.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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813/.54
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PS3568.O855Z835 2005eb
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18.06bcl
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| Added Entry
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Royal, Derek Parker,1963-
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