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Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth

Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth R O B E R T C H O D AT [T]he fact remains that in our family the collective memory doesn't go back to the golden calf and the burning bush, but to "Duffy's Tavern" and "Can You Top This?" Maybe the Jews begin with Judea, but Henry doesn't and he never will. He begins with WJZ and WOR, with double features at the Roosevelt on Saturday afternoons and Sunday doubleheaders at Ruppert Stadium watching the Newark Bears. Not nearly as epical, but there you are. Nathan Zuckerman, in The Counterlife [I]n trusting we are always giving up security to get greater security, exposing our throats so that others become accustomed to not biting. Annette Baier, Moral Prejudices ritics have long been absorbed with the place and function of allusion in literary texts, especially ones written in the twentieth century, when the borrowing and echoing of the illustrious dead became commonplace. Thus every student of T. S. Eliot must, at some point, confront the poet's learned references to Aeschylus, Dante, and John Webster, and some familiarity with Poe, Dostoyevsky, and Joyce is usually considered prerequisite to a full appreciation of Vladimir Nabokov. On the whole, however, critics http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth

Chodat, Robert
Contemporary Literature , Volume 46 (4) – Mar 22, 2005
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R O B E R T C H O D AT [T]he fact remains that in our family the collective memory doesn't go back to the golden calf and the burning bush, but to "Duffy's Tavern" and "Can You Top This?" Maybe the Jews begin with Judea, but Henry doesn't and he never will. He begins with WJZ and WOR, with double features at the Roosevelt on Saturday afternoons and Sunday doubleheaders at Ruppert Stadium watching the Newark Bears. Not nearly as epical, but there you are. Nathan Zuckerman, in The Counterlife [I]n trusting we are always giving up security to get greater security, exposing our throats so that others become accustomed to not biting. Annette Baier, Moral Prejudices ritics have long been absorbed with the place and function of allusion in literary texts, especially ones written in the twentieth century, when the borrowing and echoing of the illustrious dead became commonplace. Thus every student of T. S. Eliot must, at some point, confront the poet's learned references to Aeschylus, Dante, and John Webster, and some familiarity with Poe, Dostoyevsky, and Joyce is usually considered prerequisite to a full appreciation of Vladimir Nabokov. On the whole, however, critics

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