The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
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The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

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The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

About this book

From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. CONTRIBUTORS
  7. CHRONOLOGY
  8. Introduction: Roth at mid-career
  9. 1 American-Jewish identity in Roth’s short fiction
  10. 2 Roth, literary influence, and postmodernism
  11. 3 Zuckerman Bound: the celebrant of silence
  12. 4 Roth and the Holocaust
  13. 5 Roth and Israel
  14. 6 Roth’s doubles
  15. 7 Revisiting Roth’s psychoanalysts
  16. 8 Roth and gender
  17. 9 Roth and ethnic identity
  18. 10 Roth’s American Trilogy
  19. 11 Roth’s autobiographical writings
  20. NOTES
  21. GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
  22. INDEX