Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
Contents:
Preface / Jay Halio, Ben Siegel -- Introduction : reading Philip Roth : facts and fancy, fiction and autobiography - a brief overview / Ben Siegel -- Philip Roth's fictions of self-exposure / Debra Shostak -- Textualizing the self : adultery, blatant fictions, and Jewishness in Philip Roth's deception / G. Neelakantan -- Texts, lives, and bellybuttons : Philip Roth's operation shylock and the renegotiation of subjectivity / Derek Parker Royal -- The travels of the American Talush / Alexis Kate Wilson -- Autobiography : false confession? / Margaret Smith -- Death, mourning, and Besse's ghost : from Philip Roth's the facts to Sabbath's theater / James M. Mellard -- Philip Roth's American tragedies / Bonnie Lyons -- The end of identity : Philip Roth's Jewish American pastoral / Timothy L. Parrish -- The critique of utopia in Philip Roth's the counterlife and American pastoral / Andrew Gordon -- Newark maid feminism in Philip Roth's American pastoral / Marshall Bruce Gentry -- Reading race and the conundrums of reconciliation in Philip Roth's the human stain / Brett Ashley Kaplan -- The dying animal : the art of obsessing or obsessing about art? / Ellen L. Gerstle -- Eros and death in Roth's later fiction / Jay L. Halio.
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