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INTRODUCTION
Chapter One LITERARY FEATURES OF ROTH'S WORK
1.1Roth's Disconcerting Representation of Jewishness
1.2 Use of Sexuality and Obscenity
1.3 Traces of Self-referentiality
1.4 Zuckerman as the Alter Ego
Chapter Two BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICAN PASTORAL
2.1 Historic setting
2.2 Summary of the Novel
2.3 Irony in “the Pastoral”
Chapter Three THE ROLE OF ZUCKERMAN- AN INSIDER
Chapter Four SWEDE LEVOV'S AMERICAN DREAM
4.1Vicissituds of the American Dream
4.2 The Levovs' Version of the Disillusionment
4.3 Negligible Individual Destiny Versus Mighty Human History
4.4The Swede-A Defective Personality
CONCLUSION
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