id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xevwf376rjeczjxg6jsnnymmxm Christopher Gair "The Horror of Self-Reflection": Writing, Cancer, and Terrorism in Philip Roth's American Pastoral 2018.0 15 .pdf application/pdf 6622 389 63 in Philip Roth's American Pastoral view of these artists as offering unifying definitions of a hermeticallysealed national identity, the essay reads American Pastoral as a reenactment of the sense of crisis that permeates the work of Ralph Waldo American Renaissance link of body and nation, the essay reads cancer for Zuckerman's interest in terrorism at the time that American Pastoral was and nation sees American Pastoral re-explore the classic trope of the Zuckerman from his position as a self-consciously Jewish American author of the complexities of the American Renaissance and of Philip Roth's response to it. suggest the ways in which Roth borrows the form of Hawthorne's work, American Pastoral: thus, when Zuckerman tells of the Swede's "flawlessly While Zuckerman's representations of Swede Levov and the American Roth wrote American Pastoral at a moment before 9/11 and at a time "The Inscription of Terrorism: Philip Roth's American Pastoral." ./cache/work_xevwf376rjeczjxg6jsnnymmxm.pdf ./txt/work_xevwf376rjeczjxg6jsnnymmxm.txt