Philip Roth revisited / Jay L. Halio.

Philip Roth is unquestionably one of the major literary voices of our time, one who has combined critical acclaim with a wide readership. Since the publication of Bernard F. Rodgers's Twayne study of Roth (1978), Roth's oeuvre has expanded considerably both in bulk and in range, with the p...

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Main Author: Halio, Jay L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, [1992]
Series:Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 611.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The comedy of Philip Roth
  • Nice Jewish boys: the comedy of "Goodbye, Columbus" and the early stories
  • Letting Go: varieties of deadly farce
  • Floating, submerged, and drowned comedy in When She Was Good
  • The comedy of excess: Portnoy's Complaint
  • Roth agonistes: Philip Roth as critic and autobiographer
  • Fantasy as satire, satire as fantasy in Our Gang
  • Tour de Farce: the comedy of the grotesque in The Great American Novel
  • Playing with autobiography: My Life as a Man
  • What happens when "looking at Kafka": The Professor of Desire and The Breast
  • Comic Bildungsroman: Zuckerman Bound
  • The comedy of counterlives: The Counterlife and Deception
  • Conclusion: Roth's firmament.