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100 1 $aCooper, Alan,$d1932-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95044857
245 10 $aPhilip Roth and the Jews /$cAlan Cooper.
260 $aAlbany, N.Y. :$bState University of New York Press,$c1996.
263 $a9604
300 $axiv, 319 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Ironic and the Irate --$g2.$tStarting Out --$g3.$tBiography versus the Biographical --$g4.$tDuty before Rage --$g5.$tThe Alex Perplex --$g6.$tAbsurdities: Post-Portnoy Seventies --$g7.$tThe Most Offensive Piece Roth Ever Wrote --$g8.$tWatershed --$g9.$tZuckerman Bound --$g10.$tZuckerroth --$g11.$tOperation Shylock --$g12.$tMaster Baiter: Sabbath's Theater --$g13.$tIrony Board.
520 $aIn a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would be comic.
520 8 $aPhilip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other's signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth's "egoism" is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the "Jewish" works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere.
520 8 $aRoth's own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return - the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years - is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aJewish fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122308
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCharacters$xJews.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xReligion.
650 0 $aJudaism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070884
650 0 $aJews in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070511
830 0 $aSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42024160
852 00 $bbar$hPS3568.O855$iZ62 1996
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