Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain. Shostak<|

Philip RothAmerican Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America\nAuthor(s): Debra Shostak\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9780826422279, 978-0826422279\nSynopsis\nThis title is a collection of original essays on Philip Roth offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of recent texts. Philip Roth has without doubt been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century. Philip Roth collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, \""American Pastoral\"" [tel], \""The Human Stain\"" [tel], and \""The Plot Against America' [tel]. The volume illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. Focusing on such topics as ethnicity, gender, race, the family, trauma, his.