Mocking the age : the later novels of Philip Roth /
Safer, Elaine B.
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness -- From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity -- Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death--raunchy? picaresque? heroic? -- American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov -- I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce -- The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk -- The dying animal : pleasure is our subject -- The plot against America : paranoia or possibility? -- Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering
Roth, Philip,