States of Trial: Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America
Autor Dr. Ann Basuen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781623562960
ISBN-10: 1623562961
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1623562961
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Provides historical, social and literary readings of Roth's most complex and important late-career novels
Notă biografică
Dr. Ann Basu received her PhD on Philip Roth from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, after retiring from a career as a librarian, most recently at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, UK.
Cuprins
Introduction: Philip Roth's Post-war Americans on Trial Chapter One: Turning Sentences Around: Trial Themes in The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound and The Anatomy Lesson Chapter Two: Before the Law: Operation Shylock: A Confession Chapter Three: Testing "Stories of Old" in American Pastoral Chapter Four: Undoing the Bildungsroman: Cold War Trials in I Married A Communist Chapter Five: Spooking the American National Body in The Human Stain Chapter Six: The Plot Against America and the Trials of the American Constitution Conclusion: Nemeses: Reworking the Trial for Post-war America Notes Bibliography
Recenzii
Basu examines five of Philip Roth's later novels, from Operation Shylock (1993) to The Plot against America (2004) . Basu's interpretations of his work are insightful if not groundbreaking. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Several critics have published research that attempts to grapple with the complex issue of Roth's literary legacy. One of the best of these works is Ann Basu's recent monograph States of Trial. ... [Basu's] monograph deftly weaves close reading with interpretations provided from critical theorists ... [within a] subtle and convincing theoretical frame. ... [A]n important contribution to critical discussions about Roth.
The book represents an original, compelling contribution to the field - no mean feat, given how crowded that field is ... Basu's prose is a pleasure to read and demonstrates, as well if not better than any other critics have done, precisely how and why Roth's own prose is so richly pleasurable ... An impressive book - one that will be invaluable to Roth scholars and an illuminating guide for the uninitiated.
Finding something new to say about Philip Roth can be a trial indeed, but Ann Basu has done so on two significant levels: in the historical, cultural, and theoretical frame through which she reads her five focal texts; and in her nuanced and thoughtful work with those novels. This is a book that has a great deal to offer Roth scholars, interested American Studiers, and everyone in between.
Ann Basu's States of Trial presents a refreshing take on Roth's 'trials'-both literal and figurative-for what they can tell us about the state of America in the 20th century. Interpreting the trial not only in terms of the court of law, but also in terms of our personal lives, Basu examines how Roth's trials reveal the testing, suffering, and experimentation underwriting the roles of the writer and the citizen in contemporary life. Viewing the trial as both a rhetorical and liminal space where our confidence in the national body is tested, Basu's book brings new understanding to Roth's investment in the writer's corpus, the bodily integrity of a man and a nation, and the changing concepts of American identity. In so doing, Basu's work is exemplary in its reevaluation of Roth's incessant questioning of the status of the law, the national body, and written language, as well as the ways in which justice and injustice affect our daily lives.
States of Trial pursues a compelling and insightful argument regarding the intersection of masculinity and nationhood in Philip Roth's later fiction. Identifying the recurring trope of the trial throughout a series of Roth's novels, Ann Basu firmly places his fiction within a specifically American literary inheritance. Each chapter combines superlative close reading with a thoroughly persuasive line of argument, delivered in a crystalline prose. A remarkable achievement, States of Trial is a significant contribution to Philip Roth Studies.
There have been many recent studies on Philip Roth's output, especially on those works of fiction published in the final two decades of his career. However, Ann Basu's project stands out as a more comprehensive, and nuanced, look at this major American novliest. Approaching her subject through the metaphor of "the trial," she looks at the defining themes of Roth's fiction - storytelling, masculine identity, American nationhood, and post-war Jewish culture - as narrative modes of interrogation. The result is a far-reaching assessment of the novelist's career, with Basu herself "trying" the case of Roth as our cultural arbiter. States of Trial now stands alongside other major studies of this quintessential American writer.
Several critics have published research that attempts to grapple with the complex issue of Roth's literary legacy. One of the best of these works is Ann Basu's recent monograph States of Trial. ... [Basu's] monograph deftly weaves close reading with interpretations provided from critical theorists ... [within a] subtle and convincing theoretical frame. ... [A]n important contribution to critical discussions about Roth.
The book represents an original, compelling contribution to the field - no mean feat, given how crowded that field is ... Basu's prose is a pleasure to read and demonstrates, as well if not better than any other critics have done, precisely how and why Roth's own prose is so richly pleasurable ... An impressive book - one that will be invaluable to Roth scholars and an illuminating guide for the uninitiated.
Finding something new to say about Philip Roth can be a trial indeed, but Ann Basu has done so on two significant levels: in the historical, cultural, and theoretical frame through which she reads her five focal texts; and in her nuanced and thoughtful work with those novels. This is a book that has a great deal to offer Roth scholars, interested American Studiers, and everyone in between.
Ann Basu's States of Trial presents a refreshing take on Roth's 'trials'-both literal and figurative-for what they can tell us about the state of America in the 20th century. Interpreting the trial not only in terms of the court of law, but also in terms of our personal lives, Basu examines how Roth's trials reveal the testing, suffering, and experimentation underwriting the roles of the writer and the citizen in contemporary life. Viewing the trial as both a rhetorical and liminal space where our confidence in the national body is tested, Basu's book brings new understanding to Roth's investment in the writer's corpus, the bodily integrity of a man and a nation, and the changing concepts of American identity. In so doing, Basu's work is exemplary in its reevaluation of Roth's incessant questioning of the status of the law, the national body, and written language, as well as the ways in which justice and injustice affect our daily lives.
States of Trial pursues a compelling and insightful argument regarding the intersection of masculinity and nationhood in Philip Roth's later fiction. Identifying the recurring trope of the trial throughout a series of Roth's novels, Ann Basu firmly places his fiction within a specifically American literary inheritance. Each chapter combines superlative close reading with a thoroughly persuasive line of argument, delivered in a crystalline prose. A remarkable achievement, States of Trial is a significant contribution to Philip Roth Studies.
There have been many recent studies on Philip Roth's output, especially on those works of fiction published in the final two decades of his career. However, Ann Basu's project stands out as a more comprehensive, and nuanced, look at this major American novliest. Approaching her subject through the metaphor of "the trial," she looks at the defining themes of Roth's fiction - storytelling, masculine identity, American nationhood, and post-war Jewish culture - as narrative modes of interrogation. The result is a far-reaching assessment of the novelist's career, with Basu herself "trying" the case of Roth as our cultural arbiter. States of Trial now stands alongside other major studies of this quintessential American writer.