Jewish Identity in the "The Counterlife" by Philipp Roth

Jewish Identity in the
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Total Pages : 21
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ISBN-10 : 9783656579984
ISBN-13 : 3656579989
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Book Synopsis Jewish Identity in the "The Counterlife" by Philipp Roth by : Lisa Kastl

Download or read book Jewish Identity in the "The Counterlife" by Philipp Roth written by Lisa Kastl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Anglistik), course: Jewish-American Literature, language: English, abstract: At a first glance The Counterlife by Philip Roth seems to present a variety of stereotypes or roles to its readers. Like in the quote by Shakespeare to Roth these stereotypes are very similar to social roles, connected to social expectations and environment. Roth draws upon epitomes from the domestic area, when he is describing housewives and husbands, he finds them in the field of professional labour when talking about dentists, lawyers or the professional writer and he most vividly depicts them in the religious context when he is observing what the American Jew distinguished from the English or at other the Israeli Jew and as well when he is describing them in opposition to Christians or more Gentiles. However it would not do Roth’s writing justice to leave the analysis to this. His character presentation is far more elaborate than a mere construction of stereotypes from the view-point of a Jewish American author.

Philip Roth

Philip Roth
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 577
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ISBN-10 : 9780199846108
ISBN-13 : 0199846103
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Philip Roth by : Ira Nadel

Download or read book Philip Roth written by Ira Nadel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Counterlife

The Counterlife
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781466846418
ISBN-13 : 1466846410
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Book Synopsis The Counterlife by : Philip Roth

Download or read book The Counterlife written by Philip Roth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award The Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Every major character (and most of the minor ones) is investigating, debating, and arguing the possibility of remaking the future. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through all the landscapes, familiar and foreign, where these people are seeking self-transformation, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and to reshape history. Yet his is hardly the only voice. This is a novel in which speaking out with force and lucidity appears to be the imperative of every life. There is Henry, the forty-year-old New Jersey dentist, who risks a quintuple bypass operation in order to escape the coronary medication that renders him sexually impotent. There is Maria, the wellborn young Englishwoman, who invites the disdain of her family by marrying the American she knows will be lease acceptable in Gloucestershire. There is Lippmann, the Israeli settlement leader, who contends that "everything is possible for the Jew if only he does not give ground." The action in The Counterlife ranges from a dentist's office in quiet suburban New Jersey to a genteel dining table in a tradition-bound English village, from a Christmas carol service in London's West End to a Sabbath evening celebration in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.

Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books

Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781621968528
ISBN-13 : 1621968529
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

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Download or read book Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operation Shylock

Operation Shylock
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9780099307914
ISBN-13 : 009930791X
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Book Synopsis Operation Shylock by : Philip Roth

Download or read book Operation Shylock written by Philip Roth and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.

The Impossible Jew

The Impossible Jew
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781479895847
ISBN-13 : 1479895849
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Book Synopsis The Impossible Jew by : Benjamin Schreier

Download or read book The Impossible Jew written by Benjamin Schreier and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the works of key Jewish American authors to explore how the concept of identity is put to work by identity-based literary study.

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781501324734
ISBN-13 : 150132473X
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Book Synopsis Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth by : Brett Ashley Kaplan

Download or read book Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth written by Brett Ashley Kaplan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problematics of victimization, gender, racism and anti-Semitism"--