The Fantasy of Youth in Philip Roth's Later Novels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19554720 |
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| Authors | Gabriela Glăvan (0000-0002-1839-4111, West University of Timişoara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-154 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguaculture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2067-9696 • E-ISSN: 2285-9403 |
| Publisher | Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.47743/lincu-2020-2-0179 |
| OpenAlex | W3217239852 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
I intend to explore Philip Roth’s strategy of affirming youth as core value among his major themes revealing the experience of aging, illness and loss by revealing its particular framing in the novels of his later work. I shall analyze the contexts that connect youth to vitality and survival, revisiting some key moments in the long imaginary biographies of his notorious characters David Kepesh and Nathan Zuckerman. Although central in Roth’s work, youth has been commonly investigated in connection to allegories that anchor the writer’s oeuvre in a territory marked by nostalgia, loss, and a sense of impending vital exhaustion. My aim is to isolate this issue more clearly and focus on its specificity rather than its connectivity
Aesthetics · Art · Fantasy · Harry potter · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Theology · Vitality · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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