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Title:

Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer / edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.

Publisher:

University of Delware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

276 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
Comic, The, in literature

Other Authors:

Siegel, Ben, 1925-
Halio, Jay L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0874130948 (alk. paper)
9780874130942 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)430736568

LCCN:

2009032866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)