Howard Jacobson /

Brauner, David.

Howard Jacobson / - 1 online resource (248 pages). - Contemporary British Novelists Ser. . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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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

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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.

9781526101501


Jacobson, Howard--Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.