TY - BOOK ID - 146304960 TI - Philip Roth's postmodern American romance : critical essays on selected works PY - 2011 SN - 9781433105982 1433105985 PB - New York : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Roth, Philip (1933-....) KW - Roman américain KW - Postmodernisme et littérature KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Auteurs juifs KW - États-Unis KW - Roth, Philip KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman américain KW - Postmodernisme et littérature KW - Critique et interprétation KW - États-Unis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146304960 AB - The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters. ER -