Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPrinceton University Press, 2008 M07 28 - 328 páginas Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that includes Emerson, Melville, and Henry James, and a late twentieth-century Eastern European one that developed in reaction to totalitarianism. In Philip Roth's Rude Truth--one of the first major studies of Roth's career as a whole--Ross Posnock examines Roth's "mature immaturity" in all its depth and richness. |
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... culture is found on no map save the one drawn by literature. How it shapes a number of Roth's ma- jor novels is the main subject of this book. I attend especially to his practice of appropriation—by which he claims his literary ...
... culture since the early 1970s . This era was the pivotal moment when the youth or counterculture , having instigated political tumult , helped radicalize literary taste . It moved , broadly speaking , from realism to an antirealist ...
... culture as testament to the " obsoles- cence of everything our society understands by maturity , " including ... culture was felt far and wide and indirectly helped prepare the way for both postmodernism and multiculturalism in the ...
... culture hero to the young , but his novels of the seventies , The Breast , My Life as a Man , The Professor of Desire , made him increasingly unpopular with other branches of that audience — feminists and antirealists . They came to ...
... culture would not follow Bellow's— the literary titan turned embattled curmudgeon . Rather than this fa- miliar script , Roth's would be a career busy inventing new ones . For here is a certified Big Name ( to recall Gerald Howard's ...
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Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity Ross Posnock,Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock Vista previa limitada - 2006 |