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

Author/creator Safer, Elaine B.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press,
Descriptionx, 219 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesSUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
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.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005012803
ISBN0791467090 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0791467104

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