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Philip Roth's Personae: Mise en Abyme, Hysterical Ghost, and Angry Act
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 74, Number 1, Spring 2017
- pp. 85-98
- 10.1353/aim.2017.0004
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Abstract:
The essay explores the different forms and effects of mise en abyme, or the use of mirroring techniques and alter egos, in the works of Philip Roth. In Roth's texts, mise en abyme enables the novelist to avoid rigid limitations of pure autobiography and to express aspects of his personality in a kaleidoscopic multitude of characters.