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A political companion to Philip Roth
Title
A political companion to Philip Roth / edited by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler and Lee Trepanier.
ISBN
9780813169286
0813169283
9780813169293 (pdf)
9780813169309 (epub)
Publication
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
Physical Description
xi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2017
Series
Political companions to great American authors
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Philip Roth's Political Thought
1. "An ear in search of a word": writing and the politics of listening in Roth's I married a Communist
2. Serving His Tour as an "Exasperated Liberal and Indignant Citizen": Philip Roth, a public intellectual?
3. The Politics and Literature of Unknowingness: Philip Roth's Our gang and The plot against America
4. Four Pathologies and a State of Sanity: political philosophy and Philip Roth on the individual in society
5. Three Voices or One? Philip Roth and Zionism
6. Roth at Century's End: the problem of progress in The dying animal
7. "Novotny's Pain": Philip Roth on politics and the problem on pain
8. The Body Politic: Philip Roth's American men
9. Philip Roth and Life as a Man
10. The American Berserk in Sabbath's Theater (1995)
11. Philip Roth and the American "Underclass" in The Human Stain.
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