In history's grip Philip Roth's Newark trilogy
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index Each of Roth's novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's 20th century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny. This book is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer - history |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 198 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0804781826 0804783675 9780804781824 9780804783675 |