Philip Roth in context / edited by Maggie McKinley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKinley, Maggie, editor.

Series:

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

[Literature in context]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Roth, Philip.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This collection of essays, penned by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform his body of work. The collection opens with an overview of Roth's life and literary influences, before turning to important critical, geographical, theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts. The volume closes with focused meditations on the various iterations of Roth's legacy, from the screen to international translations of his work to his signature stylistic imprint on American letters. Together, all of these chapters reveal Roth's range as a writer, as he interrogates American national identity and history, and explores the dimensions of the individual self. Maggie McKinley is Associate Professor of English at Harper College in Illinois. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Understanding Norman Mailer (University of South Carolina Press, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and The Mailer Review, as well as in the edited collections Roth and Celebrity (Lexington, 2012), Critical Insights: Philip Roth (Salem, 2013); and Violence from Slavery to Black Lives Matter: African American History and Representation (Routledge, 2019). She is currently the program director of the Philip Roth Society and the president of the Norman Mailer Society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I LIFE AND LITERARY CONTEXTS

1. Life / Matthew Shipe

2. Literary Influences / Rachael McLennan

3. Literary Conversations / Dan A. O'Brien

4. Roth's Comic Seriousness / Paule Levy

5. Writing About Writing / James D. Bloom

pt. II CRITICAL CONTEXTS

6. The Early Years / Ira Nadel

7. Portnoy and Its Aftermath / Masiero

8. The Zuckerman Books / David Hadar

9. The Kepesh Books / Mike Witcombe

10. The "Philip Roth" Books / Gurumurthy Neelakantan

11. The Late Novellas / Victoria Aarons

pt. III GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS

12. Newark / Jessica Lang

13. The Berkshires / Daniel Anderson

14. Prague / Claudia Franziska Brubwiler

15. Israel / Leona Toker

pt. IV THEORETICAL CONTEXTS

16. Psychoanalysis / Maren Scheurer

17. Postmodernism / Michael Kalisch

18. Trauma Theory / Aimee Pozorski

19. Narrative Medicine / Miriam Jaffe

pt. V JEWISH AMERICAN IDENTITY

20. Roth as "Jewish American Writer" / Jennifer Closer

21. Judaism and Secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau

22. Roth and the Holocaust / Hilene Flanzbaum

23. Antisemitism / Gustavo Sanchez Canales

24. The Black-Jewish Matrix / Naomi Taub

pt. VI GENDER AND SEXUALITY

25. Roth and Women / Debra Shostak

26. Masculinity / Maggie McKinley

27. Roth and Sexuality / David Brauner

pt. VII POLITICAL CONTEXTS

28. Political Satire / David Gooblar

29. Class Politics / Andy Connolly

30. American Individualism / Brittany Hirth

31. The War on Terror / Margaret Scanlan

pt. VIII ROTH'S LEGACY

32. Roth in Adaptation / Gerard O. Donoghue

33. Roth in Translation / Velichka Ivanova

34. Philip Roth on Philip Roth / James Schiff

35. Roth in Retirement / Timothy Parrish.

Notes:

Series information from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Philip Roth in context

ISBN:

9781108489294

110848929X

9781108702256

1108702252

OCLC:

1196244920