Playful and Serious : Philip Roth As a Comic Writer.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Comic Crisis of Faith: Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the Fanatic -- Philip Roth's Comic Realism in Goodbye, Columbus -- Masturbation and Its Discontents -- or Serious Relief: Freudian Comedy in Portnoy's Complaint -- Affairs of the Breast: Philip Roth and David Kepesh -- The Body in Shame: Philip Roth's Physical Comedy -- Plots against America: Language and the Comedy of Conspiracy in Philip RothÌs Early Fiction -- The Myths of Summer: Philip Roth's The Great American Novel -- Operation Shylock: The Double, the Comic, and the Quest for Identity -- Roth's Falstaff: Transgressive Humor in Sabbath's Theater -- SabbathÌs Complaint: Philip Roth's Black Comedy in Sabbath's Theater -- Deadly Farce in the Comedy of Philip Roth -- The Human Stain: A Satiric Tragedy of the Politically Incorrect -- To Endure and Go On": Comedy, Castration, and the Phallus in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost -- Indignation: The Opiates of the Occident -- Contributors -- Index.

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