INVOKING NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS IN INTERPRETING PHILIP ROTH’S ZUCKERMAN PROJECT
INVOKING NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS IN INTERPRETING PHILIP ROTH’S ZUCKERMAN PROJECT

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is meant to offer an overview of Philip Roth’s nine-text long project informally known as the Zuckerman books in light of the four sets of narrative rules as described by Peter J. Rabinowitz in his Before Reading book. Based on the idea that readers approach a literary work with these conventions about literature in mind, this brief study attempts to show how this knowledge can be used during the reading and after the reading of the lengthy rothian project in order to perform appropriate authorial reading.

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