Mocking the age
Subtitle: the later novels of Philip Roth
By: Elaine B. Safer.
Series: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Subjects: Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sheer playfulness and deadly seriosness; title: From The ghost writer to The counterlife : comic incongruity and the road to postmodernism; title: Operation Shylock : the double, the comic and the quest for identity; title: Sabbath's theater : Sabbath's fear of death; title: raunchy? picaresque? heroic?; title: American pastoral : the tragicomic fall of Newark and the house of Levov; title: I married a Communist : a grave misfortune replete with farce; title: The human stain : comic irony and the lives of Coleman Silk; title: The dying animal : pleasure is our subject; title: The plot against America : paranoia or possibility?; title: Conclusion : the farcical edge of suffering.