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The Human Stain by Philip Roth

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Author Biography

Name: Philip Roth
Birth Date: 1933
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Philip Roth
1241 words, approx. 4.1 pages
The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works. Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey, and his days as a col...
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Biography of Philip (Milton) Roth
21912 words, approx. 73 pages
[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.] A major writer of twentieth-century American literature, Philip Roth has produced an impr...
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Biography of Philip Roth
12714 words, approx. 42.4 pages
In 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it also may be an answer to critics who keep waiting for him...
 


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The Human Stain Information
3,816 words, approx. 13 pages
The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth. It was made into a film of the same name in 2003 starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. The Human Stain is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan...


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The Village Voice
The human stain
10/09/2002: 1,323 words, approx. 4 pages
mike davis sets his sights on the apocalypse DEAD CITIES By Mike Davis The New Press, 448 pp., $27.95 Wildfires and floods, storms, famines, earthquakes, meteors. Riots and Total War. Tidal waves, asteroids, drought. Biowar research, vast and widening income gaps,...
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The Human Stain.(Review)
09/22/2001: 1,151 words, approx. 4 pages
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 361 pp. 326.00. If Saul Bellow's early novel, The Adventures of Augie March, inspired Roth at the beginning of his career to write about a generation of Jews younger than the immigrant...
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AP News
Bratt attends `Love' premiere in Fla.
11/2/2007: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of "Love in the Time of Cholera," says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime.The movie, directed by Mike Newell, is the first major English-language adaptation of a Garcia Marquez novel. It was...
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Roth says farewell to fictional hero
9/27/2007: 868 words, approx. 3 pages
Philip Roth says he's done with Nathan Zuckerman. But is Nathan done with Philip Roth? "Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman," the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, "has exhausted the possibilities of his character," the fictional adventurer of "The Ghost Writer," "The Anatomy Lesson"...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Elaine B. Safer
8,756 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Safer interprets The Human Stain as a commentary on the “political correctness fever” during the 1990s and outlines the tragic and farcical elements of the novel.
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Critical Essay by Ross Posnock
6,328 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Posnock explores the tension between the good boy/bad boy persona used within Roth's novels, particularly in The Human Stain.
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Critical Essay by D. A. Boxwell
5,422 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Boxwell praises The Human Stain, believing the novel aptly explores the historical, political, social, and cultural forces working in American society in the late 1990s.
 


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