Subject |
Roth, Philip.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Descript |
276 p. ; 24 cm. |
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. |
Alt author |
Siegel, Ben, 1925-
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Halio, Jay L.
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ISBN |
9780874130942 (hbk.) |
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0874130948 (hbk.) |
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