Research Catalog

Title

Political initiation in the novels of Philip Roth / Claudia Franziska Brühwiler.

Author

Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Details

Description

xv, 174 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Political participation in literature
• Political socialization in literature
• Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation
• Self in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG) of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Framework. Beginnings and transitions in political science and literature -- Classical initiation stories. Political awakenings in The plot against America and Indignation -- Guided by the particularizer: I married a Communist -- Political odysseys: Prague, Israel, and elsewhere -- Initiation as radical self-invention. Passing and other escapes from the hereditary predicament -- The religious void, or terrorist art: fanaticism as a quest for identity -- De-initiation. For another go: (Zucker)man as a perpetual initiand -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781441153210 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1441153217 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012042332

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library