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Raná tvorba Philipa Rotha: Sbohem, město C., Ať se děje, co se děje — kritický ohlas a nástin interpretace

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Sýkora M.
Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
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2015
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vol. 51
124-141
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The study summarizes the first two Philip Roth’s books and their critical reception. Roth’s works are set in the context of the American society and literature of the late nineteen fiftieth and in the connection with Roth’s essay „Writing American Fiction“. Reading of Goodbye, Columbus as a story of Jew assimilation is refused; the crucial plot is the love story between Neil and Brenda. Both Roth’s books are interpreted through the well-known Roth’s interest in Henry James: the fundament for both books is Roth’s concern in his protagonists and their temperament and every action is subordinated to the portrayals of characters.
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Conspiracy Theory as Therapy in Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America”?

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Różycki M.
Linguaculture
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2013
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vol. 2013
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issue 1
47-58
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By focusing on a passage in Philip Roth’s book, this paper strives to outline how conspiratorial beliefs can have a therapeutic function for the community which has experienced a traumatic event. Fictitious groups depicted in such texts serve as the ultimate causes of humanity’s misgivings: from natural disasters and diseases that plague it to the inherent flaws of political and social systems. Such beliefs, however, are likely to become as dangerous as the cure, a threat Roth hints at in his work. The second part of the paper will look at the viability of conspiracism as a means to address traumatizing issues, in the context of the postmodern condition and the diffusion of motifs until recently present only in the radical texts of popular culture
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Druhý život Philipa Rotha: nástin interpretace

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Sýkora M.
Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
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2018
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vol. 57
74-86
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The present study deals with the interpretation of Philip Roth’s most experimental novel The Counterlife, considered by many critics as the best text of Roth’s postmodern period. The novel is an exploration of various attempts to start a new — different life, and each of its five chapters presents a new way, thus denying the preceding chapter. There are several key themes in the novel: the exploration and defence of the writer’s own poetics, and, above all, reflections on Jewish identity, its roots, and by what it is formed.
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Amerykańska percepcja twórczości Tadeusza Konwickiego

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Sabo R.
Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
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2020
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vol. 15
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issue 1
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Due to dedicated efforts of the eminent American novelist Philip Roth, several novels from behind the Iron Curtain were published in the USA in the series “Writers from the Other Europe”. Starting in 1974, during the following 15 years, the novels of Andrzejewski, Borowski, Gombrowicz, Schulz and Konwicki were published by Penguin. This article concentrates on the American reception of Konwicki’s novels.
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Childhood memories in three novels by Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint, The Plot Against America, and American Pastoral as pivotal components of the protagonists’ identities

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Kubiak S.
Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
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2016
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vol. 14
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The objective of the paper is to discuss Philip Roth’s approach to the Jewish community in Newark, where he spent his childhood and where he chose to set several of his novels. Roth’s narrations referring to his hometown are written in the first person singular and often take the form of childhood memories. The persistent return to the settings of the Jewish quarter of Newark in the past seems an attempt at understanding the reality of a relatively closed community, yet far from isolation, which provided him with all the elements determining his complex sense of identity. Despite the various grades of fictitiousness of the characters and settings, the narrating protagonist of a number of Roth’s novels is usually a Jewish schoolboy born and brought up in Newark. The paper includes short analyses of “Jewish memories” in three novels by Philip Roth: The Plot Against America, where the narrator is called Philip Roth but the circumstances are elements of pure political/historical fiction, American Pastoral, where the speaker is Nathan Zuckerman, Roth’s frequent alter ego, and Portnoy’s Complaint, narrated by the fictitious Alexander Portnoy. Being both American and Jewish has considerable implications, which include, for example, the characters’ sexuality. The image of the childhood and adolescence of Roth’s protagonists seems not only an obsessive theme to be found in so many of his texts, but also the core of the intellectual construct which may be recognized as his sense of identity.
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The Reception of the Life and Work of Franz Kafka in Philip Roth’s Non-Fiction Writings

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Sýkora M.
Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
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2022
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vol. 19
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issue 39
241-249
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Philip Roth made no secret of his great admiration for the work of Franz Kafka, which ultimately brought him to Prague in the 1970s and fostered his interest in Czech culture. This contribution focuses on the reception of the personality and work of Franz Kafka in Philip Roth’s non-fiction writing. The first section focuses on Roth’s essential Kafkaesque essay ‘“I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting”; or Looking at Kafka’ from 1973, in which Roth combines an empathetic portrait of his favourite author with a counterfactual vision of Kafka’s life, in which the author of the Trial and the Castle did not die of tuberculosis and instead fled from the Holocaust to the United States, where he became Roth’s uncle. In the second section, based on Roth’s dialogue with Ivan Klíma from 1990, we document how Kafka serves Roth in his reflections on the position and role of the writer in society.
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Trzy filmy, dwie książki, siedem dekad: problem „uchodzenia za” u Johna Stahla, Douglasa Sirka i Roberta Bentona

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Hebda J.
Tematy z Szewskiej
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2014
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issue Rasa 3(13)/2014
57-66
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Autorka analizuje w artykule trzy filmy oparte na dwóch powieściach: Imitację życia w reżyserii Johna Stahla z 1934 roku, Zwierciadło życia Douglasa Sirka z 1959 roku – będące adaptacjami Imitation of Life Fannie Hurst – oraz Piętno Roberta Bentona z 2003 roku, ekranizację książki Philipa Rotha pod tym samym tytułem, pod względem przedstawionych w nich bohaterów „uchodzących za”, czyli Afroamerykanów udających osoby białe oraz problemów związanych z tożsamością, rasą i więzami rodzinnymi wywołanymi przez ich decyzje. Różnica 70 lat jaka dzieli pierwszy i ostatni z omawianych filmów, pozwala przyjrzeć się dokładnie, jak zmienił się sposób przedstawiania problemu tożsamości rasowej i dyskryminacji ze względu na pochodzenie w kulturze amerykańskiej głównego nurtu.
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This article analyses three movies based on two novels: two adaptations of Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life by John Stahl (1934) and Doyglas Sirk (1959), as well as Robert Benton’s The Human Stain (2003), a realisation of Philip Roth’s book. The analysis is conducted through the lenses of the characters “passing as” – Afro-Americans pretending to be white and their troubles with identity, race, and family ties provoked by the protagonists’ decisions. The seventy-year span between the first movie and the last one gives a deep insight into the changes in the representation of race and discrimination in the mainstream American culture.
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Mailer, Doctorow, Roth. A Cross-Generational Reading of the American Berserk

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Matteson J.
Review of International American Studies
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2020
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vol. 13
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issue 1
53-74
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Of all American paradoxes, none is greater than this: that the typical American cherishes free speech but is almost mortally offended by public protest, which he regards as at best lacking in taste and at worst an outright crime. A nation founded on dissent, America is exquisitely uncomfortable with ill-mannered disagreement. More than freedom itself, an American is likely to value moral insularity and absolution: he wants to live his life free from ethical challenge. He seeks suburban anesthesia, a life of commercial abundance untroubled by the pain inflicted elsewhere to maintain it, whether through military aggression or the global exploitation of labor. The American hopes to be reminded that he is good and blameless - and quickly condemns his critics as envious or mad or driven by dark agendas. As by an unwritten law, he denounces protest as an offense against his amour propre. This condemnation, ipso facto, makes a figurative criminal of the protester, who, when her efforts are scorned, finds herself not trying to persuade, but acting in a spirit of resentment and self-vindication. She sees any act by her countryman that does not challenge the social system as intolerable evidence of complicity and collaboration. The spirit of compromise vanishes, and the protester risks falling into the attitude described by Philip Roth as “the American berserk.” My address examines this process of polarization through three indispensable American novels of protest: Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night; E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel; and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.
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Wdrożenie chaosu. Uwagi o Il dettaglio e l’infinito. Roth, Yehoshua e Salter (Detal i nieskończoność. Roth, Yehoshua i Salter) Luki Alvina

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Taraborrelli C.
Forum Poetyki
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2022
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issue 30
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Il dettaglio e l’infinito by Luca Alvino is a collection of short critical essays dedicated to three famous novelists, Ph. Roth, A. Yehoshua and J. Salter, who devote their creative effort, according to Alvino, to chaos and the minutiae of human existence. They reject any delusional paradigm of a universe governed by order, instead focusing their narrative attention on the flickering dynamism of existence, unorderly in all its manifestations. Luca Alvino’s prose is transparent and fluid, and his work offers not only a precise and clear analysis of the literature examined, but also more or less occasional hints that encourage the reader to apply the same reasoning to other authors and arts other than literature, eventually suggesting glimpses of an alternative way of approaching the world surrounding us and its expression.
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Il dettaglio e l’infinito autorstwa Luki Alvina to zbiór krótkich esejów krytycznych, poświęconych trzem znanym powieściopisarzom, Philipowi Rothowi, Abrahamowi Yehoshule i Jamesowi Salterowi, którzy swą twórczą uwagę poświęcają, zdaniem Alvina, chaosowi oraz drobiazgom ludzkiej egzystencji. Odrzucają oni każdy rodzaj paradygmatu, który oferuje czytelnikowi iluzję wszechświata rządzonego przez określony porządek, w to miejsce koncentrują swój narracyjny wysiłek na spotkaniu z migotliwością istnienia, nieuporządkowanego we wszystkich swoich przejawach. Praca Luki Alvina jest przejrzysta i płynna i oferuje nie tylko precyzyjną i jasną analizę badanej literatury, ale również – rozsiane mniej lub bardziej przypadkowo – wskazówki umożliwiające czytelnikowi zastosowanie ukazanego rozumowania do innych autorów oraz innych niż literatura rodzajów sztuki, finalnie sugerując mu reorientację sposobu podejścia do otaczającego nas świata i jego ekspresji.
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