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Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth
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ISBN: 0791481972 1429411805 9781429411806 0791467090 9780791467091 0791467104 9780791467107 9780791481974 9780791481974 Year: 2006 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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The first comprehensive assessment of Philip Roth's later novels, Mocking the Age offers rich and insightful readings that explore how these extraordinary works satirize our contemporary culture. From The Ghost Writer to The Plot Against America, Roth uses humor to address deadly serious matters, including social and political issues, psychological problems, postmodern concerns, and the absurd. In her clear and extensive analyses of these works, Elaine B. Safer looks at how Roth's approach to the comic incorporates the self-deprecating humor of Jewish comedians, as well as the humor of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish storytellers and such twentieth-century writers as Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow. Filling the void on critical examinations of Roth's later work, Safer's book provides a thorough appraisal of Roth's lifetime accomplishment and an essential evaluation of his comic genius.

The contemporary American comic epic: the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey
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ISBN: 0814319424 Year: 1988 Publisher: Detroit Wayne State University Press

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The contemporary American comic epic : the novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey
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ISBN: 0814320503 Year: 1989 Publisher: Detroit Wayne State University Press

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L'allegro and Il penseroso
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Year: 1970 Publisher: Columbus (Ohio) : Merrill,

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