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University of Delware Press, UNKNO
Language
English
Pages
276

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Previews available in: English

Subjects
Comic, The, in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Roth, philip, 1933-2018, American fiction, history and criticism, 21st century

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Playful and serious: Philip Roth as a comic writer
2010, University of Delware Press, UNKNO
in English
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Cover of: Playful and serious
Playful and serious: Philip Roth as a comic writer
2010, University of Delware Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Playful and Serious
Playful and Serious: Philip Roth As a Comic Writer
2009, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
in English
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.O855 Z843 2010, PS3568.O855Z843 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
276 p. ;
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24116653M
Internet Archive
playfulseriousph0000unse
ISBN 10
0874130948
ISBN 13
9780874130942
LCCN
2009032866
OCLC/WorldCat
430736568

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