Roth after Eighty

David Gooblar; Aimee Pozorski

doi:10.5771/9781498514668

Zusammenfassung

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.

This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth’s works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth’s legacy—particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-1465-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-1466-8
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 192
Produkttyp: Sammelband

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Permissions Kein Zugriff
2. Contents Kein Zugriff
3. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
4. After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination Kein Zugriff
Chapter One“. Every third thought shall be my grave”: Roth, Memento mori, and Story Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 18
Chapter Two. Roth @ 25: Publishing Goodbye, Columbus Kein Zugriff Seiten 19 - 28
Chapter Three. “A Human Being Lives Here”: Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency Kein Zugriff Seiten 29 - 42
Chapter Four, “With an accomplice no less brilliant than Jean Genet”: A Comparative Approach to Roth’s Autofiction Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 60
Chapter Five. Performance Anxiety: Impotence, Queerness, and the“Drama of Self-Disgust” in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire and The Humbling Kein Zugriff Seiten 61 - 78
Chapter Six. Stalkers, Furies, and Comforters: Roth’s Grave Comedy of Persecution Kein Zugriff Seiten 79 - 94
Chapter Seven. “I told my wrath, my Roth did grow”: Anger in Operation Shylock Kein Zugriff Seiten 95 - 108
Chapter Eight. “My Kinsmen, My Precursors”: Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities Kein Zugriff Seiten 109 - 126
Chapter Nine, “I was the prosthesis”: Roth and Late Style Kein Zugriff Seiten 127 - 148
Chapter Ten. “[Sticking] to a plan completely”: Performance, Affective Adaptation, Memory, Pretend Play and Suicide in Philip Roth’s The Humbling Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 166
Chapter Eleven. Newark: The Shtetl Kein Zugriff Seiten 167 - 180
Afterword: Mark Shechner’s Legacy Kein Zugriff Seiten 181 - 184
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 185 - 188
About the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 192