Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer / edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.
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Table of Contents:
- A comic crisis of faith : Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the fanatic" / Timothy Parrish
- Philip Roth's comic realism in Goodbye, Columbus / Victoria Aarons
- Masturbation and its discontents; or, Serious relief : Freudian comedy in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner
- Affairs of the breast : Philip Roth and David Kepesh / Judith Yaross Lee
- The body in shame : Philip Roth's physical comedy / David Gilotta
- Plots against America : language and the comedy of conspiracy in Philip Roth's early fiction / Derek Parker Royal
- The myths of summer : Philip Roth's The great American novel / Ben Siegel
- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic, and the quest for identity / Elaine Safer
- Roth's Falstaff : transgressive humor in Sabbath's theater / Peter Scheckner
- Sabbath's complaint : Philip Roth's black comedy in Sabbath's theater / Gurumurthy Neelakantan
- Deadly farce in the comedy of Philip Roth / Jay L. Halio
- The human stain : a satiric tragedy of the politically incorrect / Sam Bluefarb
- "To endure and go on" : comedy, castration, and phallus in Philip Roth's Exit ghost / James Mellard
- Indignation : the opiates of the Occident / Alan Cooper.