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245 00 $aPlayful and serious :$bPhilip Roth as a comic writer /$cedited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delware Press,$cc2010.
300 $a276 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA 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.
520 1 $a"Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. Even fewer writers have excelled in various forms of the comic as Roth has for over a half-century. Playful and Serious assembles a group of outstanding Roth scholars and critics who focus their attention on the different ways Roth brings his comic tendencies to bear on essentially serious topics. The term "comic" is used in the broadest sense to include humor, irony, satire, comedy, black comedy, and their variations. As co-editor Ben Siegel points out, Roth's special humor often appears to grow "more surrealistic and obsessive, as in each new fiction he tries not merely to surpass the daily news but to touch what is deeply private and dark in the modern psyche." In the process, he targets "his society's most deeply embedded pieties and hypocrisies, enthusiasms, and lunacies."" "This collection takes account of the majority of Roth's works, beginning with some of his earliest stories and ending with several of his most recent novels. It also includes an account of several relatively neglected works, such as "Novotny's Pain" and "On the Air," but the essays in this volume deal mainly with the major works of fiction. They clearly show how Roth's interest in comedy has evolved from the outrageous but nonetheless hilarious comedy of Portnoy's Complaint to the more profoundly comic aspects of The Human Stain and subsequent novels. While death has increasingly become a preoccupation of those latest novels, Roth has not lost his ability to show how tragedy and comedy interact in, for example, Indignation."--Jacket.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aComic, The, in literature.
700 1 $aSiegel, Ben,$d1925-
700 1 $aHalio, Jay L.
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