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Philip Roth and World Literature - Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages (Hardcover)
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Philip Roth and World Literature - Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages (Hardcover)
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A book like this is long overdue because not many are aware of the
numerous intersections between Philip Roth's fiction and world
literature. In highlighting these intersections and uneasy
passages, this comparative approach offers an important
contribution to Philip Roth studies as well as to comparative
literary study in general. The fourteen chapters on this book
summon Roth's intertextual links to authors ranging from the
anonymous writer of the medieval play Everyman, through Thoreau,
Hawthorne, Crane, Ellison, Coover, and the New York intellectuals
in the United States, to Swift, Chekhov, Svevo, Kafka, Schulz,
Gombrowicz, Camus, and Klima in Europe, and on to Coetzee in South
Africa. The book does not deal with all the works in Roth's canon,
but it offers a selection of works representing the different
stages of Roth's development as a writer. By offering new readings
of both well-studied and lesser-studied works, sometimes in
unexpected company, the book discloses the critical difference that
comparative scholarship can affect. The uneasy passages the book
opens will not exhaust the numerous intersections between Roth and
the work of other writers. The book's contribution is to place
Roth's fiction firmly in a larger transnational context. Far from
insular, Roth's work appears as deeply rooted in the American canon
while at the same time showing a remarkable openness, a persistent
need for contact with his European forebears, and true engagement
with contemporary world literature. The transnational perspective
of the book makes it important for the rapidly growing field of
transatlantic and transnational American studies. The book will be
value to collections in American literature and Jewish studies,
comparative literature and criticism, and transatlantic and
transnational American studies.
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