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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... Aesthetic 321 ) . More recently , Milan Kundera has located Quixote's resistance in the havoc Cervantes wreaks on certitude , replacing the " apodictic and dogmatic discourse " of his younger contemporary Descartes with " the wisdom of ...
... aesthetic (Casanova 3).3 Neither is it strat- ified by class entitlement. This republic of 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 ...
... aesthetic imperative to be “ mindful ” - to render in language our fleshly " matter ” ( HS 37 ) . In sum , Roth — resistant realist , worldly regionalist — is different things at once . If one were forced to name the sharp point upon ...
... aesthetic motives and imperatives. “The times” are always ripe for tonic rudeness since smugness (often in the guise of religious or rationalist certitude) seems virtually a transhistorical given. Montaigne rose to the occasion, as did ...
... Aesthetic bliss escapes , however temporarily , the long arm of history . The formulation tentatively floated above - Roth's career as " the tri- umphal march ” to WASP literary greatness — is deflated when we recall the importance of ...
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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 |