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    New York as Shadow-Line in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost by Ellen Levy

    Published 2009-12-01
    Subjects: “…Philip Roth…”
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    Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary by Martyna Bryla

    Published 2023-11-01
    “…In this essay, I take a closer look at the imaginative geographies of the European East in the texts by John Updike, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia Hampl, and Eva Hoffman. …”
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    Political Awakenings by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

    Published 2008-05-01
    “…Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America traces the political awakening of its two child protagonists, the narrator Philip and his elder brother Sanford. …”
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    Assimilation ou fidélité aux valeurs du Vieux Monde ? La nouvelle et sa représentation de l’immigration juive aux Etats-Unis by Crystel Pinçonnat

    Published 2001-06-01
    “…A lot of Yiddish or American short stories raise the issue: New-York’s Women by Lamed Shapiro, The Son Who Came from America by Isaac Bashevis Singer,The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud Eli, The Fanatic by Philip Roth, and The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley. This article examines the representation these texts offer of the ongoing conflict within the Ashkenaze Jewish community, who came to the United States, torn between its past and its present, resistance and assimilation.…”
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    MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM (“I HAVE BECOME A QUESTION TO MYSELF”, AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS X. XXXIII): by F. England

    Published 2019-06-01
    “… This article explores a suggested radical instability of knowing human persons – selves and others – and the perennial undecidability of claims about what may be true with respect to them, by employing the novels of Philip Roth and E. L. Doctorow. If persons fundamentally are construed as questions to themselves, as Augustine says, then definitive assertions of what is true about being human are profoundly problematic. …”
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    “Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels by Nicholas Manning

    Published 2020-12-01
    “…This position may be compared to Nick Shay’s misological efforts, in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, to preserve a “wordless shock” before the world, or the renouncement of the search for meaning in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense”). …”
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