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Author:

Safer, Elaine B.

Title:

Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 219 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
Roth, Philip--Critique et interprétation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriousness -- 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.

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

ISBN:

9780791467107
0791467104
9780791467091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791467090 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005012803

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)