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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Language: | English |
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New York : Toronto : New York :
Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
[1992]
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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.