Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author
Of all contemporary American writers, Philip Roth is perhaps the most ambitious, yet he is one of the most underrepresented in terms of critical attention given his place in American letters. Unlike many aging novelists, whose production and creative mastery wane over time, Roth has demonstrated a unique ability not only to sustain his literary output, but also to surpass the scope and talent inherent in his previous writings. He has been awarded many literary honors, and in the 1990s alone...
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Scholars of English literature take another look at the American novelist and his entire body of work now that many critics and readers—if not the general public—say that he has developed an ever more compelling narrative voice since his controversial best-seller days through the 1970s and 1990s. Among the topics are female hysteria and sisterhood in Letting Go and When She Was Good, how to tell a true ghost story, double double Jewish trouble in Operation Shylock, and his nonfiction. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ForewordIntroduction; or, "now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?"11Still (resonant, relevant and) crazy after all these years : Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories92Female hysteria and sisterhood in Letting Go and When She Was Good253"Getting in your retaliation first" : narrative strategies in Portnoy's Complaint434Philip Roth, MVP : Our Gang, The Breast, and The Great American Novel595My life as a man : "the surprises manhood brings"756How to tell a true ghost story : The Ghost Writer and The case of Anne Frank897The ghosts of Zuckerman's past : the Zuckerman Bound series1038En-countering pastorals in The Counterlife1199Caught between The Facts and Deception12910The measure of all things : Patrimony14311Operation Shylock : Double Double Jewish Trouble15312"A little stranger in the house" : madness and identity in Sabbath's Theater16913Pastoral dreams and national identity in American Pastoral and I Married a Communist18514Becoming black : Zuckerman's bifurcating self in The Human Stain20915Professing desire : the Kepesh novels22516It can happen here, or all in the family values : surviving The Plot Against America24117The "written world" of Philip Roth's nonfiction255
