Philip Roth’s Mock Lincoln
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian McDonald (0000-0003-1601-5445, corresponding author), Brian J McDonald |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-401 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2013.035 |
| OpenAlex | W1973342000 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article considers the core political ideas that animate Philip Roth’s McCarthy-era novel I Married a Communist through a critical analysis of the novel’s central character, Ira “Iron Rinn” Ringold. It argues that, with Ira, Roth dramatizes the ambiguity that surrounds both the Lincolnian ideal of individual self-determination and the intractable presence of betrayal in the theory and practice of American liberal democracy
Ambiguity · Art · Betrayal · Character (mathematics · Communism · Democracy · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · American Political and Social Dynamics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |