Title: Philip Roth /
Authors: Brauner, David, 1968-
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusiverly in the USA by Palgrave,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Roth, Philip Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction History and criticism
Abstract: Annotation
Contents: The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman bound -- The 'credible incredible and the incredible credible': generic experimentation in My life as a man, The counterlife, The facts, Deception and operation Shylock -- Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath's theater -- History and the anti-pastoral: utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the 'American trilogy' -- Fantasies of flight and flights of fancy: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The plot against America.