Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer / edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siegel, Ben, 1925-2010.

Halio, Jay L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roth, Philip, 1933-2018--Criticism and interpretation.

Roth, Philip.

Comic, The, in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delware Press, [2010]

Contents:

A comic crisis of faith : Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the fanatic" / Timothy Parrish

Philip Roth's comic realism in Goodbye, Columbus / Victoria Aarons

Masturbation and its discontents; or, Serious relief : Freudian comedy in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner

Affairs of the breast : Philip Roth and David Kepesh / Judith Yaross Lee

The body in shame : Philip Roth's physical comedy / David Gilotta

Plots against America : language and the comedy of conspiracy in Philip Roth's early fiction / Derek Parker Royal

The myths of summer : Philip Roth's The great American novel / Ben Siegel

Operation Shylock : the double, the comic, and the quest for identity / Elaine Safer

Roth's Falstaff : transgressive humor in Sabbath's theater / Peter Scheckner

Sabbath's complaint : Philip Roth's black comedy in Sabbath's theater / Gurumurthy Neelakantan

Deadly farce in the comedy of Philip Roth / Jay L. Halio

The human stain : a satiric tragedy of the politically incorrect / Sam Bluefarb

"To endure and go on" : comedy, castration, and phallus in Philip Roth's Exit ghost / James Mellard

Indignation : the opiates of the Occident / Alan Cooper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874130942

0874130948

OCLC:

430736568