Lehrende/r: Dr. Claudia Görg
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 410
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: On May 22, 2018, Philip Roth died after decades of producing stories and novels. His work won him many awards, amongst them the Pulitzer Award. Yet, he decided to stop writing after he finished his novel Nemesis (published in 2010). In an interview with The Guardian, he declared: "I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done." Philip Roth preferred to be called an American writer instead of being labeled a Jewish-American writer. Nevertheless, the label stuck to him, and Aharon Applefeld argued that he considered Philip Roth a Jewish writer because "he writes about people called Zuckerman, Epstein, Kepesh, and their mothers, about their lives' upheavels, in a manner a novelist relates things he knows intimately." In this class we will discuss one of his most famous stories, "Eli, the Fanatic," the satire Portnoy's Complaint, the postmodern novel Operation Shylock, and the political novel The Plot Against America. Particularly in view of the current developments in the US, the novel has moved to the center of attention since it plays with the idea of a fictional authoritarian government in the USA. "Eli, the Fanatic" (1959) Portnoy's Complaint (1967) The Plot Against America (2004) Operation Shylock (1993)
