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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction - After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination
Aimee Pozorski
1 “Every third thought shall be my grave”: Roth, Memento Mori, and Story
Debra Shostak
2 Roth @ 25: Publishing Goodbye, Columbus
Ira Nadel
3 “A Human Being Lives Here”: Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency
Claudia Brühwiler
4 “With an accomplice no less brilliant than Jean Genet”: A Comparative Approach to Roth’s Autofiction
Patrick Hayes
5 Performance Anxiety: Impotence, Queerness, and the “Drama of Self-Disgust” in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire and The Humbling
David Brauner
6 Stalkers, Furies, and Comforters: Roth’s Grave Comedy of Persecution
Aurélie Guillain
7 “I told my wrath, my Roth did grow”: Anger in Operation Shylock
Alex Calder
8 “My Kinsmen, My Precursors”: Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities
Catherine Morley
9 “I was the prosthesis”: Roth and Late Style
Adam Zachary Newton
10 Performance, Affective Adaptation, Memory, Pretend Play, and Suicide in Philip Roth's The Humbling
Amy Gelbart
11 Newark: The Shtetl
Mark Shechner
Afterword - Mark Shechner’s Legacy
David Gooblar

Product details

Published Dec 15 2016
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 214
ISBN 9781498514668
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

David Gooblar

Anthology Editor

Aimee Pozorski

Contributor

David Brauner

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Alex Calder

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Amy Gelbart

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Patrick Hayes

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Ira Nadel

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Mark Shechner

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Debra Shostak

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