Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.

Author/creator Safer, Elaine B.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 219 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture. ^A226051
Contents Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness -- From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity -- Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death--raunchy? picaresque? heroic? -- American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov -- I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce -- The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk -- The dying animal : pleasure is our subject -- The plot against America : paranoia or possibility? -- Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index.
LCCN 2005012803
ISBN0791467090 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0791467104

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3568.O855 Z884 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold