Philip Roth and the Jews / Alan Cooper.

In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Alan, 1932-
Other title:Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy (c.2) gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Series:SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Ironic and the Irate
  • 2. Starting Out
  • 3. Biography versus the Biographical
  • 4. Duty before Rage
  • 5. The Alex Perplex
  • 6. Absurdities: Post-Portnoy Seventies
  • 7. The Most Offensive Piece Roth Ever Wrote
  • 8. Watershed
  • 9. Zuckerman Bound
  • 10. Zuckerroth
  • 11. Operation Shylock
  • 12. Master Baiter: Sabbath's Theater
  • 13. Irony Board.