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Summary. Apparently inspired by the life and career of Anatole Broyard, the late, well-known literary critic of The New York Times, The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a Newark-born ...
The Human Stain is an academic novel set within a university or college campus, involving academic staff. This genre has many predecessors, such as Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, David Lodge's Changing ...
Discussion of themes and motifs in Philip Roth's The Human Stain. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Human Stain so you can excel on your essay or test.
The Human Stain is Roth's eighth novel narrated through his literary alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman serves as the narrative lens and the storyteller of this intricate moral tale. Since his ...
The Human Stain—which won the National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the W. H. Smith Award, the Prix Médicis, and other awards—is the third in a series of books ...
Summary. “Defender of the Faith” is a 1959 short story by Philip Roth. In the opening pages, we meet Sergeant Nathan Marx, who has just returned from Germany to America "only a few weeks after ...
The setting of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" plays a crucial role in the story. It takes place in November 1850, during the height of the California Gold Rush. At that time, law and order on the ...
Portnoy's Complaint is a highly controversial dark comedy set in the transformative 1960s. Written by Philip Roth in 1969, the novel reflects changing views on sexuality, Jewish identity, and ...
Although he approaches Desdemona's bed planning to bloody it ("Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted" [5.1.36]), his deepest desire is not to stain but to restore the purity of ...
Casagrande, Peter J. Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Unorthodox Beauty. New York: Twayne, 1992. Focuses on Hardy’s intertwining of beauty and ugliness, of moral and aesthetic issues. Examines ...
