Turning Up The Flame

by Halio, Jay L.; Siegel, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780874139020
• ISBN10: 0874139023
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(10)
Jay Halio
Ben Siegel
Introduction: Reading Philip Roth: Facts and Fancy, Fiction and Autobiography---A Brief Overview	17	(14)
Ben Siegel
Philip Roth's Fictions of Self-Exposure	31	(27)
Debra Shostak
Textualizing the Self: Adultery, Blatant Fictions, and Jewishness in Philip Roth's Deception	58	(10)
G. Neelakantan
Texts, Lives, and Bellybuttons: Philip Roth's Operation Shylock and the Renegotiation of Subjectivity	68	(24)
Derek Parker Royal
The Travels of the American Talush	92	(7)
Alexis Kate Wilson
Autobiography: False Confession?	99	(16)
Margaret Smith
Death, Mourning, and Besse's Ghost: From Philip Roth's The Facts to Sabbath's Theater	115	(10)
James M. Mellard
Philip Roth's American Tragedies	125	(6)
Bonnie Lyons
The End of Identity: Philip Roth's Jewish American Pastoral	131	(20)
Timothy L. Parrish
The Critique of Utopia in Philip Roth's The Counterlife and American Pastoral	151	(9)
Andrew Gordon
Newark Maid Feminism in Philip Roth's American Pastoral	160	(12)
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Reading Race and the Conundrums of Reconciliation in Philip Roth's The Human Stain	172	(22)
Brett Ashley Kaplan
The Dying Animal: The Art of Obsessing or Obsessing about Art?	194	(6)
Ellen L. Gerstle
Eros and Death in Roth's Later Fiction	200	(7)
Jay L. Halio
Bibliography	207	(10)
Contributors	217	(3)
Index	220