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Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
2006, State University of New York Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness
From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism
Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity
Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death
raunchy? picaresque? heroic?
American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov
I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce
The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk
The dying animal : pleasure is our subject
The plot against America : paranoia or possibility?
Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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