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Maren Scheurer
Publications - 7
Citations - 9
Maren Scheurer is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Power (physics). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 9 citations.
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A Psychopathology of Everyday Women: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics and Gender Politics in Letting Go and "The Psychoanalytic Special"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that women are a "childlike dolls, who existed in terms only of man's love, to love man and serve his needs" (Friedan 108), which is not another rebuke of Philip Roth's alleged misogyny, although it may remind us of Hermione Lee's provocative statement that, in Roth's novels, "nearly all the women [...] are there to obstruct or to help, or to console the male characters" (Reading 132), or David Gooblar's assessment that feminist critics have usually deemed Roth's
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Philip Roth's Chekhovian Formula: Suicide and Art in the Humbling and the Seagull
TL;DR: Roth, CHEKHOV, and a GUN as discussed by the authors The Humbling (2009) is a novel about suicide in which the protagonist Simon Axler finally commits suicide just like Treplev does in Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull.
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"What It Adds Up To, Honey, Is Homo Ludens!": Play, Psychoanalysis, and Roth's Poetics
TL;DR: Roth plays with therapeutic moments in his novels and develops his characteristic take on dialogue, role-playing, topic, and style in a playful interaction with psychoanalysis as discussed by the authors, which may be another way of looking at Roth's engagement with the discipline.
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Introduction Philip Roth’s Transdisciplinary Translation
Maren Scheurer,Aimee Pozorski +1 more
TL;DR: This paper discussed what it would mean to bring together some of the most respected scholars in Roth Studies, scholars who have been writing about Roth for over a decade, with scholars just starting out, to attend a three-day seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, a conference that Harvard University hosted the following spring.
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Editors' Note: Traveling with Roth
Aimee Pozorski,Maren Scheurer +1 more
TL;DR: Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheurer as mentioned in this paper present an image of an overblown sketch of Roth projected on the screen behind and above her, staring stoically at the conference attendees, or maybe looking over Aimee's shoulder in judgment of what she is about to say next.