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What can we expect from the turn to literature in political thought and analysis? This paper examines recent attempts to utilize literature in political science departments through a reading of Philip Roth’s ‘American Trilogy’ of 'I Married A Communist,' 'American Pastoral,' and 'The Human Stain.' It argues that Roth’s work alerts us to an important distinction between the written world of the text and the unwritten world in which that text is written, even as it plays with that distinction for literary purposes. The paper suggests that the current work on literature in the discipline often fails to recognize or respect this distinction, rendering its conclusions highly suspect. The paper concludes by identifying ways in which Roth’s distinction should force us to rethink how we, as political thinkers and social scientists, approach literature in order that we might reap the benefit of its considerable insights without falling into methodological error. |
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| Stow, Simon. "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading, Politics and Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63512_index.html> |
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| Stow, S. , 2003-08-27 "Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading, Politics and Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63512_index.html |
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Abstract: What can we expect from the turn to literature in political thought and analysis? This paper examines recent attempts to utilize literature in political science departments through a reading of Philip Roth’s ‘American Trilogy’ of 'I Married A Communist,' 'American Pastoral,' and 'The Human Stain.' It argues that Roth’s work alerts us to an important distinction between the written world of the text and the unwritten world in which that text is written, even as it plays with that distinction for literary purposes. The paper suggests that the current work on literature in the discipline often fails to recognize or respect this distinction, rendering its conclusions highly suspect. The paper concludes by identifying ways in which Roth’s distinction should force us to rethink how we, as political thinkers and social scientists, approach literature in order that we might reap the benefit of its considerable insights without falling into methodological error. |
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| Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading Politics and Theory Simon Stow Department of Government The College of William and Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg VA 23187 757-221-3048 sastow@wm.edu Paper Prepared for Presentation at the American Political Science Association annual meeting Philadelphia PA August 28th-31st 2003. Please Do Not Circulate or Cite without Author’s Permission 1 Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading Politics and Theory1 Simon Stow The College of William and Mary “At their best ” declared |
| irony and solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989. Roth Philip. American Pastoral. New York: Vintage Books 1997. Roth Philip. I Married A Communist. New York: Vintage Books 1998. Roth Philip. The Human Stain. New York: Vintage Books 2000. Roth Philip. Reading Myself and Others. New York: Vintage Books 2001. Sutherland John. Is Heathcliff A Murderer? Puzzles in Nineteenth Century Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996. 26 Sutherland John. Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction. Oxford: Oxford |
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