| Series |
Political companions to great American authors.
Political companions to great American authors. ^A1063020
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2017019633 |
| ISBN | 9780813169286 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813169283 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
