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<p> American Pastoral is not only an elegiac fictional biography, but an in-depth analysis of the demise of the American dream in the context of post-war social and cultural mutations. The loss of innocence echoes the tragic mythical Fall from Paradise and the novel’s main characters, Seymour “Swede” Levov and his daughter, Merry, mirror this process in a complex and meaningful way.</p>
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American Pastoral is not only an elegiac fictional biography, but an in-depth analysis of the demise of the American dream in the context of post-war social and cultural mutations. The loss of innocence echoes the tragic mythical Fall from Paradise and the novel’s main characters, Seymour “Swede” Levov and his daughter, Merry, mirror this process in a complex and meaningful way.

Tragic Innocence in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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American Pastoral is not only an elegiac fictional biography, but an in-depth analysis of the demise of the American dream in the context of post-war social...

Tragic Innocence in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 240 - 253

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0023-x

Keywords
innocence, tragedy, identity, the American Dream

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Tragic Innocence in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 240 - 253

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0023-x

Keywordsinnocence, tragedy, identity, the American Dream

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
innocence, tragedy, identity, the American Dream