Playful and serious
Subtitle: Philip Roth as a comic writer
By: edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.
Contributors: Siegel, Ben, 1925-; Halio, Jay L.
Publisher: University of Delware Press; UNKNO
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780874130942
Subjects: Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic, The, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A comic crisis of faith : Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the fanatic" / Timothy Parrish; title: Philip Roth's comic realism in Goodbye, Columbus / Victoria Aarons; title: Masturbation and its discontents; or, Serious relief : Freudian comedy in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner; title: Affairs of the breast : Philip Roth and David Kepesh / Judith Yaross Lee; title: The body in shame : Philip Roth's physical comedy / David Gilotta; title: Plots against America : language and the comedy of conspiracy in Philip Roth's early fiction / Derek Parker Royal; title: The myths of summer : Philip Roth's The great American novel / Ben Siegel; title: Operation Shylock : the double, the comic, and the quest for identity / Elaine Safer; title: Roth's Falstaff : transgressive humor in Sabbath's theater / Peter Scheckner; title: Sabbath's complaint : Philip Roth's black comedy in Sabbath's theater / Gurumurthy Neelakantan; title: Deadly farce in the comedy of Philip Roth / Jay L. Halio; title: The human stain : a satiric tragedy of the politically incorrect / Sam Bluefarb; title: "To endure and go on" : comedy, castration, and phallus in Philip Roth's Exit ghost / James Mellard; title: Indignation : the opiates of the Occident / Alan Cooper.