Posnock Philip Roth's Rude Truth

The Art of Immaturity
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2734-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Posnock, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xix

List of Abbreviations xxi

Chapter 1: Introduction: Roth Antagonistes 1

Chapter 2: Immaturity: A Genealogy 39

Chapter 3: Ancestors and Relatives: The Game of Appropriation and the Sacrifice of Assimilation 88

Chapter 4: "A very slippery subject": The Counterlife as Pivot 125

Chapter 5: Letting Go, or How to Lead a Stupid Life: Sabbath's Nakedness 155

Chapter 6: Being Game in The Human Stain 193

Chapter 7: The Two Philips 236

Coda: "The stars are indispensable" 260

Notes 267

Works Cited 287

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Ross Posnock is Professor of English at Columbia University, where he also teaches American Studies. His books include The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity; Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual; and The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison.