ILLNESS AND THE MEDICALIZATION OF THE BODY IN PHILIP ROTH'S NOVELS

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作者：
Glavan, Gabriela [1 ]
机构：
[1] West Univ Timisoara, Fac Letters Hist & Theol, Timisoara, Romania
来源：
BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES | 2020年 / 26卷
关键词：
aging; illness; medical body; medical intervention; medicine and literature;
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I [文学];
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05 ;
摘要：
A central, recurrent theme in Roth's oeuvre, the process of aging and illness has been widely explored by the writer in close relation with the medical realm. I shall focus on three novels that, in varying degrees, reveal the complex meaning of this phenomenon, all having the writer's alter-ego, Nathan Zuckerman, as protagonist: The Anatomy Lesson, where Roth exposes the painful awareness of biological vulnerability as part of becoming older, Exit Ghost a novel of solitude and defeat, and American Pastoral, one of Roth's cardinal works, questioning the truth and mythology of one's biography.
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