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

Gabriela Glăvan

doi:10.1515/rjes-2020-0003

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

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 17 (2020): Issue 1 (December 2020)

By: Gabriela Glăvan

Open Access

|Jan 2021

Abstract

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.

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