- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 219 p.)
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Mocking the age (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Mocking the age (Online)
- Subject
- Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness -- From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity -- Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death--raunchy? picaresque? heroic? -- American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov -- I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce -- The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk -- The dying animal : pleasure is our subject -- The plot against America : paranoia or possibility? -- Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering.
- LCCN
- 2005012803
- OCLC
- ssj0000203876
- Author
Safer, Elaine B.
- Title
Mocking the age [electronic resource] : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.
- Imprint
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Series
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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