Mocking the Age by Elaine B Safer
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.-
Dreaming the Actual
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Where We Find Ourselves
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Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish
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Beyond Marginality
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A Spiritual Life
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Not One of Them in Place
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Memory and Mastery
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Imagining Each Other
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Living Root
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Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature
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Voicing the Void
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Tradition and Innovation
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Between Exile and Return
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Freud's Dream of Interpretation
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Accidents of Influence
Elaine B. Safer is Professor of English at the University of Delaware and the author of The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791467107 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791467104 |
| Title | Mocking the Age |
| Author | Elaine B Safer |
| Series | Suny Series In Modern Jewish Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2006-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 229 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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