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LEADER: 01976nam a22002538a 4500
001 2009032866
003 DLC
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008 090814s2010 deu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780874130942 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPS3568.O855$bZ843 2010
082 00 $a813/.54$222
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.
263 $a1004
300 $ap. 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 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.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aComic, The, in literature.
700 1 $aSiegel, Ben,$d1925-
700 1 $aHalio, Jay L.