Bobbie Ann Mason and Philip Roth: Two Great-American-Novel Concepts Pieced in One Big Picture

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Ruth Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Philip Roth ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Bobbie Ann Mason ◽  
Big Picture

Portraits But No Big Picture

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 870-871
Author(s):  
Valerian J. Derlega
Keyword(s):  
Big Picture

Looking Upstream and into the Watershed for the Big Picture of Stream Health

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Y. S. Siu ◽  
Shirley E. Clark ◽  
Ruth A. Sitler ◽  
Katherine H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Stream Health ◽  
Big Picture

Judaism and Heterogeneity in the Modernist Long Novel

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-379
Author(s):  
Jeremy Tambling
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Carlos Fuentes ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
Meaningful Category ◽  
Roberto Bolano

This paper explores how Judaism is represented in non-Jewish writers of the nineteenth-century (outstandingly, Walter Scott and George Eliot) and in modernist long novels, such as those by Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, and, in the Latin American novel, Carlos Fuentes and Roberto Bolaño. It finds a relationship between the length of the ‘long’ novel, as a meaningful category in itself (not to be absorbed into other modernist narratives), and the interest that these novels have in Judaism, and in anti-semitism (e.g. in the Dreyfus affair) as something which cannot be easily assimilated into the narratives which the writers mentioned are interested in. The paper investigates the implications of this claim for reading these texts.

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