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Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages
A book like this is long overdue because not many are aware of the numerous intersections between Philip Roth's fiction and world literature. In highlighting these intersections and uneasy passages, this comparative approach offers an important contribution to Philip Roth studies as well as to comparative literary study in general. The fourteen chapters on this book summon Roth's intertextual links to authors ranging from the anonymous writer of the medieval play Everyman, through Thoreau, Hawthorne, Crane, Ellison, Coover, and the New York intellectuals in the United States, to Swift, Chekhov, Svevo, Kafka, Schulz, Gombrowicz, Camus, and Klíma in Europe, and on to Coetzee in South Africa. ...
Reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral
Dans l'ambitieux roman de Philip Roth - acclamé par la critique dès sa parution en 1997 -, les destins individuels se mêlent à la trame du destin national des Etats-Unis. Au fil de l'histoire de la famille Levov qui se déploie de 1945 aux années 1970 - celles de la guerre du Vietnam et du Watergate -, Roth interroge les utopies individuelles et collectives, et dévoile la nudité de l'être humain face à l'événement historique. Cette " pastorale américaine" s'avère en effet bien fragile : bulle prête à éclater, illusion patriotique minée par la violence et le doute... Fruit du dialogue fécond engagé au sein d'une équipe internationale de chercheurs, le présent ouvrage propose de nombreuses pistes d'analyse pour aborder une oeuvre qui figure parmi les meilleurs romans américains du XXe siècle. Il fournira de précieuses clés de compréhension aux candidats à l'agrégation d'anglais et, plus largement, aux étudiants anglicistes de tous niveaux. Au-delà, ce livre s'adresse à tous les passionnés de littérature contemporaine désireux d'appréhender la complexité de Pastorale américaine.
Philip Roth
This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.
Politics, Satire, and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary American Novel
What is the role of the historical and political novel in our lives? Is it just a story from the past, or does it shape our historical consciousness? Can we rely on the information within this type of fiction? According to many historicists, we cannot. However, we can also question numerous ideologically shaped history books that look more like fiction than scientific sources. Hence, historically and politically loaded fiction has an equal chance in the formational process of our historical consciousness. Besides, through satire and humor, which a scientist omits in a history book, a novelist manages to affect its reader on a different scale and leave a deeper trace. As E.,L. Doctorow once s...
Roth after Eighty
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth’s works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth’s legacy—particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.
L’idéologie politique de Marguerite Yourcenar d’après son œuvre romanesque
Marguerite Yourcenar a répété qu’on ne comprenait bien l’histoire du présent qu’à la lumière du passé. Dans cette affirmation, il y a assurément une vérité difficilement réfutable. Cependant, ne juger que d’après le passé, n’est-ce pas poser a priori que le présent n’en est que la reproduction et que rien ne change jamais dans l’histoire de l’humanité universelle ? Cela revient à nier toute idée de progrès et d’évolution et à entériner le concept d’éternel retour. Cette notion qui n’est pas neutre du point de vue idéologique incite à scruter l’image que Yourcenar donne de l’histoire contemporaine avec un esprit critique, aussi bien en ce qui concerne le style que les choix opérés par la romancière. Une observation se dégage de l’étude des rapports sociaux et des questions morales, intellectuelles ou plus nettement politiques dans les romans de Yourcenar. Elle se rattache toujours à un courant de pensée traditionaliste, voire conservateur, caractéristique de l’idéologie politique de la droite européenne du XXe siècle.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions in Philip Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his important novels but uncannily anticipated our American future. Divided into six main sections, this Handbook considers such topics: - The full range of Roth's writing, from his novels and sho...
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.
