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Philip Roth - Fiction and Power (Hardcover)
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Philip Roth - Fiction and Power (Hardcover)
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When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary
responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its
power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the
vividness, energy, and special intensity of literary experience is
all too often subdued, and exchanged for a supposedly more
sophisticated discussion of its ethical or political significance.
Philip Roth has long thumbed his nose at the 'virtue racket', as
one of his characters called it, and his fiction has repeatedly
satirised the moralistic idiom that tends to rule the public
discussion of literature. In doing so he has earned the disapproval
of an unusually wide range of university teachers and
intellectuals. Philip Roth: Fiction and Power argues that Roth's
importance derives precisely from his revaluation of what counts as
sophisticated and serious in our response to literature. As well as
examining how Roth emerged as a writer, and defining the main lines
of influence on him, the book measures his impact on the dominant
ways of thinking about literary value in post-war America.
Attention is given to particular questions: about the place of
emotion and affective experience, the nature and value of tragedy,
the relevance of art to life, the relationship between literature
and the unconscious, the concept of the author, the idea of a
literary canon, and the ways that fiction illuminates America's
complex post-war history. The book will be of importance to readers
of modern American literature, and indeed to anyone interested in
why literature matters.
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