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<p>I intend to explore Philip Roth’s representation of aging in his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, and in the allegorical, medical life story of his generic hero, Everyman (2006). My arguments connect the writer’s constant preoccupation with the biological life of the body and the cultural significance of aging, divergently projected in these two novels.</p>
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I intend to explore Philip Roth’s representation of aging in his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, and in the allegorical, medical life story of his generic hero, Everyman (2006). My arguments connect the writer’s constant preoccupation with the biological life of the body and the cultural significance of aging, divergently projected in these two novels.

Old Age as Massacre: Philip Roth’s Elegies of Aging in <italic>Everyman</italic> and <italic>American Pastoral</italic>

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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I intend to explore Philip Roth’s representation of aging in his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, and in the allegorical, medical life story of his generic hero,...

Old Age as Massacre: Philip Roth’s Elegies of Aging in Everyman and American Pastoral

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 16 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0003

Keywords
literature and medicine, aging, illness, biography, sexuality, death

© 2020 Gabriela Glăvan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Old Age as Massacre: Philip Roth’s Elegies of Aging in Everyman and American Pastoral

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 16 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0003

Keywordsliterature and medicine, aging, illness, biography, sexuality, death

© 2020 Gabriela Glăvan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
literature and medicine, aging, illness, biography, sexuality, death