The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521682932 ISBN 13: 9780521682930

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.

About this title

Book Description:

Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this book will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.

About the Author:

Timothy Parrish is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521682932
• ISBN 13: 9780521682930
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Parrish Timothy