Mocking the age the later novels of Philip Roth / Elaine B. Safer.
| Author/creator | Safer, Elaine B. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, |
| Description | x, 219 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | SUNY 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-205) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005012803 |
| ISBN | 0791467090 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0791467104 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |