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Roth meets Poe : Patrick Roth, Poetikdozent 2004, liest aus Werken von Edgar Allan Poe
No full textNach seinen Poetikvorlesungen im Herbst 2004 ist Patrick Roth auf Einladung der "Literarischen Gesellschaft Palais Boisserée" und des Germanistischen Seminars wieder zu Gast an der Universität Heidelberg. Roth wird seine Stimme Edgar Allan Poe leihen, dem Dichter, der ihm seit seiner Schülerzeit literarische Heimat bedeutet. Gelesen werden ausgewählte Geschichten Edgar Allan Poes im englischen Original und in der Übersetzung Arno Schmidts und Hans Wollschlaegers sowie ein Text von Patrick Roth selbst, der einsichtig werden lässt, wie Roth Poe seinem eigenen Schreiben anverwandelt hat. Die Texte: * "Shadow - A Parable" (englisch) * "Patrick Roths Vorwort zu "Shadow / Schatten", einer zweisprachigen Sammlung von E.A.Poes Erzählungen (in der Übertragung von Arno Schmidt) * "Schatten" (in der Uebertragung Arno Schmidts) "Das verraeterische Herz" (in der Uebertragung Hans Wollschlaegers). Auf dem Media-Server aufgenommen im: Juni 2005 (Dauer: 1 Stunde, 4 Minuten)
Tod und Auferstehung in L. A. - Patrick Roth liest aus „Die amerikanische Fahrt“ und „Die Christus Trilogie“
No full textIn der Reihe "HCA trifft …" ist am 11. Juli 2017 der Autor Patrick Roth zu Gast am Heidelberg Center for American Studies. In der von Prof. Michaela Kopp-Marx (Germanistisches Seminar) und Prof. Jan Stievermann (HCA) moderierten Veranstaltung liest Patrick Roth aus "Die amerikanische Fahrt" und "Die Christus Trilogie".
Patrick Roth wurde 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau geboren und lebt als freier Autor in Los Angeles und Mannheim. Berühmt ist er als Erzähler biblisch-mythischer Stoffe, die er in einer filmisch-präsentischen Weise neu dramatisiert, so in den Texten der Christus Trilogie (1998/2017) und im Roman Sunrise. Das Buch Joseph (2012). Die deutsch-amerikanischen Erzählzyklen Meine Reise zu Chaplin (1997/2013) Die Nacht der Zeitlosen (2001), Starlite Terrace (2004) und Die amerikanische Fahrt (2013) vergegenwärtigen Einzelschicksale im Schatten der Hollywood-Filmindustrie und Roths ungebrochene Liebe zum Kino. Zuletzt erschien die mit einem umfangreichen Kommentar versehene Neuausgabe der Christus Trilogie (2017), die traditionelle biblische Bilder mittels der Durchmischung mit popkulturellen und mythischen Elementen in einer rhythmisierten, bildgewaltigen Sprache neu für die Gegenwart erschließt. Für sein literarisches Schaffen wurde Roth vielfach geehrt (u.a. mit dem Hugo-Ball-Preis, dem Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung und dem Mainzer Stadtschreiberpreis); in den Jahren 2004 und 2012 hatte er die Poetikdozentur an der Universität Heidelberg inne.
Veranstaltungsort: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstraße 120, Heidelber
Philip Roth : fiction and power /
No full textPhilip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the defining authors in the literature and culture of post-war America. Yet he has long been a polarising figure and throughout his long career he has won the disapproval of an extremely diverse range of public moralists - including, it would seem, the Nobel Prize committee. Far from seeking to make Roth a more palatable writer, Patrick Hayes argues that Roth's interest in transgressing against the 'virtue racket', as one of his characters put it, defines his importance. Placing the vehemence and unruliness of human passions at the heart of his writing, Roth is the most subtle exponent of a line of thinking that descends from Nietzsche and which values the arts for their capacity to scrutinise life in an extra-moral way. This book explores the depth and richness of insight that Roth's fiction thereby generates, and defines what is at stake in his challenge to widely-held assumptions about the ethical value of literature.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Philip Roth and Ethics Talk -- 2. Beginnings "Goodbye, Columbus" -- 3. Tragedy "Letting Go, My Life as a Man, Sabbath's Theatre" -- 4. Experience "Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral" -- 5. Life as Literature "The Counterlife, Deception, The Humbling -- 6. The Author "The Ghost Writer" -- 7. The Unconscious " Operation Shylock, The Plot Against America" -- 8. The Canon "The Human Stain -- List of Works Cited -- IndexPhilip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the defining authors in the literature and culture of post-war America. Yet he has long been a polarising figure and throughout his long career he has won the disapproval of an extremely diverse range of public moralists - including, it would seem, the Nobel Prize committee. Far from seeking to make Roth a more palatable writer, Patrick Hayes argues that Roth's interest in transgressing against the 'virtue racket', as one of his characters put it, defines his importance. Placing the vehemence and unruliness of human passions at the heart of his writing, Roth is the most subtle exponent of a line of thinking that descends from Nietzsche and which values the arts for their capacity to scrutinise life in an extra-moral way. This book explores the depth and richness of insight that Roth's fiction thereby generates, and defines what is at stake in his challenge to widely-held assumptions about the ethical value of literature
More than Jewish mischief: Postmodern ethnicity in the later fiction of Philip Roth
No full textFor most of his career, Philip Roth has attempted to blur the lines between fact and fiction and to use his own life as a literary starting point. When he published The Facts: A Novelist\u27s Autobiography in 1988, he was doing outright what many had already accused him of doing most of his career: writing about himself. This work reveals that the texts and countertexts that make up much of Roth\u27s writing function in a symbiotic manner, and it is here—in numerous rewritings, reimaginings, and revisions of the subject—where the interplay between fiction and autobiography come into play. Roth\u27s works highlight the construction of a Jewish American identity, and his post-Zuckerman books create texts of the self that emphasize a postmodern understanding of that ethnic subjectivity. For example, The Counterlife serves a seminal text within the body of Roth\u27s fiction, not only because the author explores more fully the tumultuous life of his protagonist, Nathan Zuckerman, but more significantly because for the first time he contextualizes Zuckerman\u27s personal fragmentation within a variety of Jewish melieux, including those of both the United States and Israel. Patrimony, the third in his autobiographical tetralogy, is an effort to understand the author\u27s relationship with both his father and the American Jewish culture that his father represents, and does so within a significantly gender-based context. His most ambitious novel, Operation Shylock, is an exercise in confronting the autobiographical self by conflating the written and the unwritten worlds and problematizing any attempt to ultimately extricate one from the other. In contrast to the autobiographical narratives, Sabbath\u27s Theater explores issues of Jewish ethnicity in a subtler manner, but attempts to understand the ethnic subject in light of the flux comprising contemporary American society. Finally, American Pastoral, much like Roth\u27s earlier novel The Ghost Writer, foregrounds the process of postmodern ethnic subjectivity through a series of reimaginings, where the protagonists define themselves through the recreated and fictionalized lives of others. Roth\u27s later novels reveal the life of the author within a Jewish American context, but they tell us more about the self, and the very nature of narrative, than they do their subject
To be or not to be Sade: Philip Roth, "Sabbath's Theater" and Libertine Thought
No full textreservedIl presente elaborato si propone di indagare, all'interno dell'opera di Philip Roth, le forme e le ricorrenze tematiche legate al pensiero libertino. Sebbene si consideri anche la poetica dell’autore in generale, il focus viene posto sulle opere giudicate più rappresentative, in cui "l'argomento" libertinismo risulta essere più pregnante; un ruolo di primaria importanza in questo senso lo ricopre l'opera "Sabbath's Theatre" ("Il teatro di Sabbath"). Nonostante l'indagine sia di tipo tematico-comparatistico non si rifiuta una rigorosa ricostruzione storica della figura del libertino, soprattutto per meglio definirne il profilo e le caratteristiche; inoltre, la fondazione di un canone di autori "libertini" risulta fondamentale per far emergere ricorrenze tematico-stilistiche utili per meglio approcciare l'opera di Roth.This paper aims to investigate, within the great work of Philip Roth, the forms and thematic recurrences related to Libertine Thought. Although it also consider the poetics of the author in its wholeness, the focus is placed on the most representative works, in which "the subject" libertinism is more meaningful; a role of primary importance in this perspective is the novel "Sabbath’s Theatre". Despite the fact that the investigation is of a thematic-comparative nature, it does not elude a rigorous historical reconstruction of the figure of the libertine, especially to better define his profile and characteristics; moreover, the foundation of a canon of "libertine" authors is fundamental to bring out significative thematic-stylistic recurrences to better approach Roth’s work
Alternative Histories: Philip Roth and The Plot Against America
No full textThis paper deals with Philip Roth’s continual idea of “what if…” with a concentration on his novel, The Plot Against America. Roth has always called himself a suppositional writer, though Roth, (who is Roth?) is a continual presence in his work (Zuckerman and Kepesh, for example, in other writerly personae). Nevertheless, this work makes us question various ideas about twentieth-century American history, not only in terms of the personal, but also in terms of ideas about nationality. This is a novel that is both comic and tragic and which makes us think about our position in the contemporary world of Central and East Europe. More importantly, it makes us think about what is happening in contemporary America. It also questions ideas about Roth as author
Philip Roth revisited
No full textPhilip Roth is unquestionably one of the major literary voices of our time, one who has combined critical acclaim with a wide readership. Since the publication of Bernard F. Rodgers's Twayne study of Roth (1978), Roth's oeuvre has expanded considerably both in bulk and in range, with the publication of such major works as The Ghost Writer, The Counterlife, and Patrimony. Philip Roth Revisited is an entirely new look at this important writer's life and work. In this sensitive study Jay L. Halio interprets Roth as fundamentally a comic writer in the tradition of that great "sit-down comedian," Franz Kafka. Humor, Halio argues, is for Roth the vehicle of truth. The present volume is more than a study of a single theme in Roth's work, however for Halio gives full consideration to the many complexities of Roth's writings. Roth has always, for instance, been a writer deeply concerned with characteristically Jewish themes, often controversially so, as in his outrageously comic Portnoy's Complaint. Halio places Roth in his Jewish-American milieu, explaining both the similarities and the differences between Roth and other Jewish-American writers, and discussing the reception of Roth's work by the Jewish community. In the latter part of his career, perhaps influenced by the insistence of readers and critics on seeing the author himself in his protagonists, Roth has turned to the complex theme of the interweaving of art and autobiography a concern that has both intrigued and irritated some critics. Halio's analysis of this important element in Roth's work is perhaps the clearest available reading of a notoriously complex subject. Comic, subtle, intelligent, Philip Roth's literary art reps careful and sensitive reading. Halio's study will be valuable to students and scholars of American literature, and to general readers interested in learning about one of America's leading men of letters
Joseph Roth and Slovenes
No full textŠtudija, napisana na podlagi primarnih in sekundarnih virov ter spominov, obravnava tista dela avstrijskega pisatelja Josepha Rotha, ki tematizirajo Slovence. V prvi vrsti gre za romana Radetzkyjeva koračnica (1932) in Kapucinska grobnica (1938), kjer so Slovenci kot osrednji literarni liki prvič vstopili v neslovensko svetovno književnost in to skozi velika vrata. V podporo adekvatnejši analizi literarnih likov upošteva tudi Rothove feljtone, objavljene v nemškem dnevniku Frankfurter Zeitung, kjer Roth poroča o južnih Slovanih, njihovi politiki in državi, ki jo označi za eno naslednic propadle Avstro-Ogrske na Balkanu. Avtorica se osredinja na Rothove slovenske like in njihov sprejem pri naših bralcih, pri čemer s primeri iz Rothovih feljtonov in siceršnjih avtorjevih zapisanih izjav dokazuje, da je Roth dobro poznal tako zgodovino kakor tudi zakonitosti literarnega ustvarjanja. Fikcija do neke mere temelji na resničnosti, vendar deluje po estetskih učinkih, ki z le-to niso vedno kompatibilni.The present study is based on primary and secondary literature as well as memoirs. It deals with those works by Austrian writer Joseph Roth that thematize Slovenians. First and foremost, these are the novels Radetzky March (1932) and The Emperor\u27s Tomb (1938). Slovenians are here central fictional characters, entered the non-Slovenian world literature of class for the first time, through the Great Gate. In support of the more adequate analysis of fictional characters of Slovenians, author also takes into account Roth\u27s feuilletons, published in the German daily Frankfurter Zeitung. Here he reports on South Slavs, their politics and the state, which he calls one of successor states in the Balkans of the decayed Habsburg Empire. The author focuses on Roth\u27s Slovenian fictional characters and their reception by Slovenian readers. By quoting his articles and few other statements on Slovenians she is about to prove that Roth knew very well both, the political history and the requests of creation of a work of fiction. Fiction is to some extent based on reality, though it works according to aesthetic effects that are not always compatible with it
Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis
No full textIn her article Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis Emily Budick discusses Philip Roth\u27s novel Nemesis as the culminating work of a career in which one nemesis or another has afflicted almost all of the author\u27s protagonists. During the bulk of Roth\u27s career, the hero\u27s nemesis was generally, as in the ordinary, literary usage of the term, the protagonist\u27s enemy, whether Judge Wapter in The Ghost Writer or the alter-Roth in The Counterlife. In Nemesis Roth restores the word nemesis to its classical meaning: Nemesis, as the goddess of revenge and cosmic balance. The nemesis in Roth\u27s novel, therefore, is mortality itself, against which human beings vainly strive. It is also the condition of disease and filth that human beings shares with each other and the natural world, that some humans would, with hubris, attempt to put themselves beyond
As narrativas em Nêmesis, de Philip Roth
No full textEsta resenha trata das perspectivas narrativas no romance Nêmesis, do autor americano Philip Roth. A partir de dois olhares, o da narrativa territorial da Newark dos anos 1940, cidade natal do autor e local de ambientação do romance, e da interpretação do livro no contexto pós-pandemia, é traçada uma breve análise crítica da obra.This review deals with narrative perspectives in the novel Nemesis, by the American author Philip Roth. From two points of view: the territorial narrative of 1940’s Newark, the author\u27s hometown and the novel\u27s setting, and the interpretation of the book in the post-pandemic context, a brief critical analysis of the work is outlined
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