Description for Philip Roth
Paperback. This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer. Series Editor(s): Monteith, Sharon; Yousaf, Nahem. Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways.
At the heart of this book are a number of detailed and nuanced readings of Roth’s works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynchon, Tim O’Brien, Brett Easton Ellis, Stanley Elkin, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719074257
SKU
V9780719074257
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About D. Brauner
David Brauner is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading -- .
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