Howard Jacobson /
This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
[2020]
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| Series: | Contemporary British novelists.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1dhpgtg |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 'Being funny': comedy, the anti-pastoral and literary politics
- 'Being men': masculinity, mortality and sexual politics
- 'Being Jewish': Philip Roth, antisemitism and the Holocaust
- Afterword
- Select bibliography
- Index