Philip Roth [electronic resource] : American pastoral, The human stain, The plot against America / edited by Debra Shostak.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Continuum,
[2011]
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| Series: | Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
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Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction: Roth's America / Debra Shostak-- "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting history in American Pastoral / David Brauner-- Critique of the pastoral, utopia, and the American dream in American Pastoral / Andrew Gordon-- America's haunted house: The racial and national uncanny in American Pastoral / Jennifer Glaser
- Race, recognition, and responsibility in The Human Stain / Dean Franco
- Possessed by the past: history, nostalgia, and language in The Human Stain / Catherine Morley
- "The pointless meaningfulness of living": Illluminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter / Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
- Just folks homesteading: Roth's doubled plots against America / Brett Ashley Kaplan
- My life as a boy: The Plot Against America / Elaine M. Kauvar
- Autobiography and history in Roth's The Plot Against America, or What happened when Hitler came to New Jersey / Timothy Parrish.