Acknowledgments | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
A Comic Crisis of Faith: Philip Roth's “Conversion of the Jews” and “Eli, the Fanatic” | p. 25 |
Philip Roth's Comic Realism in Goodbye, Columbus | p. 35 |
Masturbation and Its Discontents; or, Serious Relief: Freudian Comedy in Portnoy's Complaint | p. 47 |
Affairs of the Breast: Philip Roth and David Kepesh | p. 68 |
The Body in Shame: Philip Roth's Physical Comedy | p. 92 |
Plots against America: Language and the Comedy of Conspiracy in Philip Roth's Early Fiction | p. 117 |
The Myths of Summer: Philip Roth's The Great American Novel | p. 133 |
Operation Shylock: The Double, the Comic, and the Quest for Identity | p. 152 |
Roth's Falstaff: Transgressive Humor in Sabbath's Theater | p. 181 |
Sabbath's Complaint: Philip Roth's Black Comedy in Sabbath's Theater | p. 195 |
Deadly Farce in the Comedy of Philip Roth | p. 208 |
The Human Stain: A Satiric Tragedy of the Politically Incorrect | p. 222 |
“To Endure and Go On”: Comedy, Castration, and Phallus in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost | p. 229 |
Indignation: The Opiates of the Occident | p. 255 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 269 |
Index | p. 272 |
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