Download or read book Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance written by Jane Statlander and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of this book is that Philip Roth's work is most accurately viewed as postmodernist American Historical Romance, rather than marginalized as Jewish-American. Four works are analyzed in relation to this thesis and to the specific idea that Roth's contribution is entirely within mainstream American literature and culture. Emphasizing the importance and influence of Hebrew Scripture, the author demonstrates that, paradoxically, Roth's Jewishness locates him squarely within the canon of (a Hebraic) America and its letters.