Playful and Serious

by Siegel, Ben; Halio, Jay L.

• ISBN13: 9780874130942
• ISBN10: 0874130948
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-31
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

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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