| Description |
ix, 303 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Still (resonant, relevant and) crazy after all these years : Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories / Jessica G. Rabin -- Female hysteria and sisterhood in Letting go and When she was good / Julie Husband -- "Getting in your retaliation first" : narrative strategies in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner -- Philip Roth, MVP : Our gang, The breast, and The great American novel / Anne Margaret Daniel -- My life as a man : "the surprises manhood brings / Margaret Smith -- How to tell a true ghost story : The ghost writer and the case of Anne Frank / Aimee Pozorski -- The ghosts of Zuckerman's past : the Zuckerman bound series / Alexis Kate Wilson / En-countering pastorals in The counterlife / Bonnie Lyons -- Caught between The facts and Deception / Richard Tuerk -- The measure of all things : Patrimony / Benjamin Hedin -- Operation Shylock : double double Jewish trouble / Elaine B. Safer -- "A little stranger in the house" : madness and identity in Sabbath's theater / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Pastoral dreams and national identity in American pastoral and I married a communist / Derek Parker Royal -- Becoming black : Zuckerman's bifurcating self in The human stain / Tim Parrish -- Professing desire : the Kepesh novels / Kevin R. West -- It can happen here, or all in the family values : surviving The plot against America / Alan Cooper -- The "written world" of Philip Roth's nonfiction / Darren Hughes. |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays covers Philip Roth's entire output and links themes across works highlighting those thoughts and ideas that recur frequently. Providing up-to-date coverage of all his works, each chapter introduces the work or works under discussion, briefly summarizes the story, and moves on to an analysis of its various literary elements and its significance in Roth's overall body of work. While each chapter focuses on the central issues in the specific work, several larger themes that run throughout many of his writings are addressed."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Roth, Philip, 1930-2002 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Royal, Derek Parker, 1963-
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| ISBN |
0275983633 (alk. paper) |
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9780275983635 (alk. paper) |
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