Isbn: 9780415567992 - philip roth (routledge revivals) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 95 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. As well as setting the novelist's work in context, this book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane. Series: Routledge Revivals. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126. . 2011. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane. Roth is a highly literary and referential character and an assessment is made of the conflicting influnces on his work of Kafka, Chekov, Gogol, Henry James, Melville and Henry Youngman, a Jewish nightclub and Vaudeville comic. In addition a close examination of his anxious, revolting, garrulous heroes, their mothers, their marriages, their shrinks, and their shiksas is undertaken and a deep seriousness is discovered, co-existing with Roth's comic brashness and bravura.…