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Plato's Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, The University of Chicago, and Philip Roth's Neo-Aristotelian Poetics

Anderson, Daniel Paul
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1196434510

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2008, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, English.
This thesis examines how Philip Roth’s education at the University of Chicago shaped the Zuckerman Bound books. By investigating the influence that the Chicago “Neo-Aristotelians” had on Roth’s graduate work, I show how Aristotle and Plato organize the tension between Zuckerman’s career as a novelist and his heritage as a Jew. The thesis examines how the Chicago emphasis on the critical powers of Pluralism was derived from Aristotle’s Poetics and how that literary practice influenced Roth. The Chicago emphasis on Pluralism emerged from a disagreement between Plato and Aristotle over the nature of art, specifically, whether a work of art exists in and of itself, or if it’s simply part of a single organizing system. Like his Chicago mentors, Roth models the tension between Zuckerman’s heritage and art after the philosophical disagreement between Plato and Aristotle. A close reading of the Zuckerman Bound books reveals that Chicago criticism is alive and well in literature.
Judith Oster (Advisor)
94 p.
Literature, English
Philip Roth; The University of Chicago; Aristotle; Plato; Nathan Zuckerman; The Republic; Poetics; Jewish Identity

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  • Anderson, D. P. (2008). Plato's Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, The University of Chicago, and Philip Roth's Neo-Aristotelian Poetics [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1196434510

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  • Anderson, Daniel. Plato's Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, The University of Chicago, and Philip Roth's Neo-Aristotelian Poetics. 2008. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1196434510.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Anderson, Daniel. "Plato's Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, The University of Chicago, and Philip Roth's Neo-Aristotelian Poetics." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1196434510

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