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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,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a276 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rBen Siegel and Jay L. Halio -- $tA Comic Crisis of Faith: Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the Fanatic" /$rTimothy Parrish -- $tPhilip Roth's Comic Realism in Goodbye, Columbus /$rVictoria Aarons -- $tMasturbation and Its Discontents; or, Serious Relief: Freudian Comedy in Portnoy's Complaint /$rDavid Brauner -- $tAffairs of the Breast: Philip Roth and David Kepesh /$rJudith Yaross Lee -- $tThe Body in Shame: Philip Roth's Physical Comedy /$rDavid Gilotta -- $tPlots against America: Language and the Comedy of Conspiracy in Philip Roth's Early Fiction /$rDerek Parker Royal -- $tThe Myths of Summer: Philip Roth's The Great American Novel /$rBen Siegel -- $tOperation Shylock: The Double, the Comic, and the Quest for Identity /$rElaine Safer -- $tRoth's Falstaff: Transgressive Humor in Sabbath's Theater /$rPeter Scheckner -- $tSabbath's Complaint: Philip Roth's Black Comedy in Sabbath's Theater /$rGurumurthy Neelakantan -- $tDeadly Farce in the Comedy of Philip Roth /$rJay L. Halio -- $tThe Human Stain: A Satiric Tragedy of the Politically Incorrect /$rSam Bluefarb -- $t"To Endure and Go On": Comedy, Castration, and Phallus in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost /$rJames Mellard -- $tIndignation: The Opiates of the Occident /$rAlan 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aComic, The, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005892
700 1 $aSiegel, Ben,$d1925-2010.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79113046
700 1 $aHalio, Jay L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50017916
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