Research Catalog

Title

A political companion to Philip Roth / edited by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler and Lee Trepanier.

Publication

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska
• Trepanier, Lee, 1972-

Description

xi, 284 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth's first work of fiction, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he followed this stunning debut with more than thirty books - earning another National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. Throughout his career, Roth delighted in controversy but often denied that he sought a role as a public intellectual. His statements and vigorous support of suppressed writers in communist Czechoslovakia, however, tell a different story. In A Political Companion to Philip Roth, established and rising scholars explore the myriad political themes in the author's work. Several of the contributors examine Roth's writings on Jewish identity, ZIonism, and American attitudes toward Israel, as well as the influence of his work in other countries. Others investigate Roth's articulation of the roles of gender and sexuality in US culture. This interdisciplinary examination offers a more complete portrait of Roth as a public intellectual and cultural icon. It not only fills a gap in scholarship but also provides a much broader perspective on the nature and purpose of the acclaimed writer's political thought. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Political companions to great American authors

Uniform Title

Political companions to great American authors.

Subject

• Roth, Philip
• Roth, Philip, 1933-
• Politics in literature
• Political participation in literature
• Political socialization in literature
• Political and social views
• Politisches Denken

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 17-7090

ISBN

• 9780813169286
• 0813169283

LCCN

2017019633

OCLC

959037096

Title

A political companion to Philip Roth / edited by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler and Lee Trepanier.

Publisher

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Political companions to great American authors

Political companions to great American authors.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska, editor.

Trepanier, Lee, 1972- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7090