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This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.
Antisemitism. --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism --- Literary theory
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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the coming-of-age novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.
Bildungsroman [American ] --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- 20th century --- Banks, Russell --- Udall, Brady --- Wolff, Geoffrey --- Jen, Gish --- Eugenides, Jeffrey --- Moody, Rick --- Bradfield, Scott --- Richard, Mark --- Robinson, Marilynne --- Humphreys, Josephine --- Allison, Dorothy --- Wurtzel, Elizabeth --- Bildungsromans, American --- History and criticism. --- American literature --- 21st century --- DeLillo, Don --- Auster, Paul --- Ellis, Bret Easton --- Smiley, Jane --- Shields, Carol --- Roth, Philip --- Powers, Richard --- Frazier, Charles --- McCarthy, Cormac
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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 Pynch
English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Roth, Philip --- Roth, Philip Milton --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- ロス, フィリップ --- American fiction --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish --- Literature: history & criticism --- History and criticism. --- American novelist. --- Bret Easton Ellis. --- Howard Jacobson. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Philip Roth. --- Stanley Elkin. --- Thomas Pynchon. --- Tim O'Brien. --- paradox. --- rhetorical device.
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Ambivalence in literature. --- American fiction --- American fiction --- English fiction --- English fiction --- Jewish fiction --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Judaism in literature. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life
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This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.
Literature - General --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English fiction --- American fiction --- Jewish fiction --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism.
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