TREATMENT OF SOCIAL TRANSGRESSION IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF PHILIP ROTH: A STUDY
This present research paper, entitled “Treatment of Social Transgression in the Select Novels of Philip Roth: A Study,” aims to explore Philip Roth’s treatment of transgression and narrative methods. This study examines Philip Roth’s representation of transgression and fiction with reference to his novels Letting Go, Portnoy’s Complaint, My Life as a Man, and Operation Shylock. In the process, the study traces the evolution of Philip Roth as a novelist and how far his works reflect the culture and struggles of his time. His creativity is focused on the cultural and transgressional implications of Philip Roth’s experience and imagination. The primary objective of this study is to describe cultural experience through a study of novels by Philip Roth. A second objective is to identify the changes that his creative sensibility underwent during his literary career. This situates certain tyrannical issues within the theoretical field of the representation of social transgression and investigates the intersection of culture and politics explored in the novels chosen for the study by Philip Roth.
Psychosocial Dimension, Adolescence, Transgressive, Psychoanalytic Confession, Assimilation, Identity Politics