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Philip Roth: A
Bibliography and Research Guide
Compiled by
Derek Parker Royal
Below is a listing of
critical works on Philip Roth (short book reviews have been excluded) in
English. This bibliography attempts to be as complete and as up to
date as possible. Given the sheer proliferation of Roth criticism,
such an assertion has to remain tentative.
Click here
to see a list of primary texts by Philip Roth, including his
fiction and nonfiction, uncollected stories and essays.
Bibliographies
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Leavey, Ann. "Philip Roth: A Bibliographic
Essay (1984-1988)." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 212-18. |
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McDaniel, John N.
"Philip Roth: A Checklist 1954-1973." Bulletin of
Bibliography 31 (1974): 51-53. |
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Rodgers, Bernard
F. , Jr. Philip Roth: A Bibliography. 2nd ed.
Scarecrow Author Bibliog. 19. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1984. |
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Royal, Derek Parker.
"Annual
Bibliography: Philip Roth Criticism and Resources - 2004." Philip
Roth Studies 1 (2005): 185-89. |
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"Annual Bibliography, Philip Roth Criticism and Resources - 2005."
Philip Roth Studies 2 (2006): 172-76. |
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“Philip Roth: A Bibliography of the Criticism,
1994-2003.” Studies in Jewish American Literature 23
(2004): 145-59. |
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Solinger, Jason
D. "Philip Roth: An Annotated Bibliography of Uncollected
Criticism, 1989-1994." Studies in American Jewish
Literature 15 (1996): 61-72. |
Book-length
Studies and Monographs
Click on the book titles for a listing of
the chapters, sections, or individual essays
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Baumgarten, Murray, and Barbara
Gottfried. Understanding Philip Roth. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1990.
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Bleikasten, André. Philip Roth: Les
ruses de la fiction. Paris: Belin, 2001. |
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Philip Roth: Modern
Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. |
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Philip Roth: Modern
Critical Views. Rev. ed. New York: Chelsea House,
2003. |
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Portnoy's Complaint:
Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House,
2004. |
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Brauner, David.
Philip Roth. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. |
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Cooper, Alan. Philip Roth and
the Jews. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. |
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Gogos, Manuel. Philip Roth & Söhne:
Zum jüdischen Familienroman. Hamburg: Philo, 2005. |
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Halio, Jay L. Philip Roth Revisited.
New York: Twayne, 1992.
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Halio, Jay L., and Ben Siegel. Turning Up the
Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2005.
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Jones, Judith Paterson, and Guinevera A. Nance.
Philip Roth.
New York: Ungar, 1981.
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Kinzel, Till.
Die
Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens: Eine Studie zu
Zuckermans Amerika in Philip Roths Amerika-Trilogie.
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2006. |
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Lee, Herminone. Philip Roth.
New York: Methuen, 1982. |
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Lévy,
Paule and Ada Savin, eds. Profils Américains:
Philip Roth. Université
Paul-Valéry Montpellier III: CERCLA,
2002. |
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McDaniel, John N. The Fiction of
Philip Roth. Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974. |
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Meeter, Glenn. Bernard Malamud and
Philip Roth: A Critical Essay. Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 1968. |
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Milbauer, Asher Z., and Donald G.
Watson, eds. Reading Philip Roth. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1988. |
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Milowitz, Stephen. Philip Roth Considered : The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer.
New York: Garland Press, 2000.
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Pinsker, Sanford. The Comedy
That "Hoits": An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth. Columbia: University
of Missouri Press, 1975. |
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Pinsker, Sanford,
ed. Critical Essays
on Philip Roth. Boston: Hall, 1982. |
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Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth:
The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. |
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Rodgers, Bernard F., Jr. Philip
Roth. Boston: Twayne, 1978. |
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Royal, Derek Parker, ed.
Philip Roth: New Perspectives on An American Author.
Westport, CT: Greenwood-Praeger, 2005. |
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Safer, Elaine B. Mocking the Age: The
Later Novels of Philip Roth. Albany: State U of New York
P, 2006. |
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Shechner, Mark. Up Society's Ass,
Copper: Rereading Philip Roth. Madison: U of Wisconsin P,
2003. |
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Shostak, Debra. Philip Roth
- Countertexts, Counterlives. Columbia, SC: U of South
Carolina P, 2004. |
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Searles, George J. The Fiction
of Philip Roth and John Updike. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1985. |
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Singh, Nandita. Philip Roth: A
Novelist in Crisis. New Delhi: Classical Publishing, 2001. |
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Wade, Stephen. Imagination
in Transit: The Fiction
of Philip Roth. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic P, 1996. |
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Zeng,
Yanyu. Towards Postmodern Multiculturalism: A New Trend of
African-American and Jewish American Literature Viewed through
Ishmael Reed and Philip Roth. Xiamen: Xiamen UP, 2004. |
Special
Issues of Journals
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Halio, Jay L., ed. Philip Roth. Spec. issue of
Shofar 19.1 (2000): 1-216. |
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Franco, Dean J. Roth and Race. Spec. issue of
Philip Roth Studies 2.2 (2006) 81-176. |
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Royal, Derek Parker, ed. Philip Roth’s America: The Later Novels.
Spec. issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature 23
(2004): 1-181. |
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Aarons,
Victoria. “Is It 'Good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews'?:
Philip Roth’s Registry of Jewish Consciousness.” What Happened
to Abraham?: Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction.
Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2005. 64-81. |
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Acocella, Joan. "Counterlives."
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays. New York:
Pantheon-Random, 2007. 459-68. |
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Allen, Mary. "Philip Roth: When
She Was Good She Was Horrid." The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major
Fiction of the Sixties. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
70-96. |
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Allan, Sean. "Powers of Male Anxiety in Philip Roth’s My Life as
a Man and the Films of Vincent Gallo." The Image of Power in
Literature, Media, and Society: Selected Papers, 2006 Conference,
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Ed.
Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2006. 53-56. |
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Alexander, Edward. “American History, 1950-70, by Philip Roth.”
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition. New Brunswick:
Transaction, 2003. 141-51. |
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Alvarez, Al.
"Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth." Risky
Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books. London:
Bloomsbury, 2007. 355-65. |
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—. "Philip Roth."
Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. 30-41. |
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Andrzejczak,
Krzysztof. "Roth, Czechoslovakia; Towards the Uneasy
Schriftstellerein." Crossing Borders: American Literature
and Other Artistic Media. Ed. Jadwiga Maszewska. Lodz; Peoria, IL: Polish Scientific; Spoon River, 1992. 31-38. |
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—. "'A Strain
on Anyone's Nerves': The American Writer-Hero in Communist Europe."
Images
of Central Europe in Travelogues and Fiction by North American Writers.
Ed. Waldermar Zacharasiewicz. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1995. 305-312. |
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Appelfeld, Aron. Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a
Conversation with Philip Roth. New York: Fromm, 1994. |
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Balasubramanian,
Kamakshi. "Chekhovian Motifs in Roth's Professor of Desire."
Studies in Russian Literature. Hyderabad, Ind.: Central
Inst. of English and Foreign Languages, 1984. 66-73. |
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Bardeleben, Renate von. "Eastern Sites of Memory in the
Writings of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick."
Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures.
Ed. Udo J. Hebel. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag,
2003. 97-113. |
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Benken, Peter. “‘So, if these woMen are Already at Home, How Come
these Men Never Seem to Get There?’—The Cases of Many Antin, Anzia
Yezierska, Theodor Herzl, and Philip Roth.” Wandering Selves:
Essays on Migration and Multiculturalism. Ed. Michael Porsche
and Christian Berkemeier. Essen: Blaue Eule, 2001. 59-87. |
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Berger, Alan L.
"Holocaust Responses III: Symbolic Judaism." Crisis and
Covenant. Albany: SUNY P, 1985. 151-85. |
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Berman,
Jeffrey. "Philip Roth's Psychoanalysts." The Talking
Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysts. New
York: New York UP, 1985. 239-69. |
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Bertens, J. W. "'The Measured
Self' vs. the Insatiable Self': Some Notes on Philip Roth." From Cooper
to Philip Roth: Essays on American Literature. Ed. J. Bakker and D.
R. M. Wilkinson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980. 93-107. |
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Biale, David.
“Dilemmas of Desire.” Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to
Contemporary America. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997. 1-10. |
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Bloom,
James D. Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern
America. Westport, CT: Paeger, 2003. [NOTE: There is
no one chapter devoted to Roth, but many sections of the text
concern his comic writings.] |
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Boyers,
Robert. "The Indigenous Beserk: Philip Roth." The Dictator's
Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists. New York:
Columbia UP, 2005. 9-19. |
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Blair, Walter, and Hamlin Hill.
"The Great American Novel." America's Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury.
New York: Oxford, UP, 1978. 472-486. |
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Burstein, Janet. "Riddling Identity: The Gates of Roth." Telling
the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s.
Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2006. 14-24. |
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Brauner,
David. "Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Portraits of the
Artist as a Jew(ish Other)." Post-War Jewish Fiction:
Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Transatlantic Connections.
Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. |
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Brown, William Lansing. "Alternative Histories: Power, Politics,
and Paranoia in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and
Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle." The Image
of Power in Literature, Media, and Society: Selected Papers, 2006
Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social
Imagery. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO:
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2006.
107-11. |
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Casteel,
Sarah Phillips. "The Myth of the West in Bernard Malamud and
Philip Roth." Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in
Contemporary Writing of the Americas. Charlottesville,: U
of Virginia P, 2007. 51-78. |
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Charney,
Maurice. "Sexuality and Self-Fulfillment: Portnoy's
Complaint and Fear of Flying." Sexual Fiction.
London: Methuen, 1981. 113-31. |
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Cheyette, Bryan.
"Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Representations of an 'Imaginary
Homeland' in Postwar British and American Jewish Literature."
Forked Tongues? Comparing Twentieth-Century British and American
Literature. London: Longman, 1994. 355-73. |
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Coetzee,
J. M. "Philip Roth, The Plot Against America." Inner
Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005. New York: Viking, 2007.
228-43. |
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Cooper, Alan.
"The Jewish Sit-Down Comedy of Philip Roth." Jewish Wry:
Essays on Jewish Humor. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. 158-177. |
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Crouch,
Stanley. "Segregated Fiction Blues." The Artificial White Man:
Essays on Authenticity. New York: Basic Civitas, 2004. 15-50. |
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Daleski, H. M.
"Philip Roth’s To Jerusalem and Back." Ideology and Jewish
Identity in Israeli and American Literature. Ed. Emily Miller Budick. Albany: SUNY P, 2001. 79-94. |
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Danzinger, Marie
A. "The Counterlife: Castration, Cannibalism, and The
Dialectic."
Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett,
Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth. New York: Lang, 1996.
75-102. |
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Detweiler, Robert. "Philip Roth
and the Test of the Dialogic Life." Four Spiritual Crises in Mid-Century
American Fiction Gainesville: University of Florida Monographs No. 14
(1963): 25-35. |
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Dickstein, Morris. "Black Humor
and History: The Early Sixties." Gates of Eden--American Culture in
the Sixties." New York: Basic, 1977. 91-127. |
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—. "The
Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer." A Mirror in the
Roadway: Literature and the Real World. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2005. 168-83. |
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—. "The
Face in the Mirror: The Eclipse of Distance in Contemporary Fiction."
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2005. 184-98. |
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Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven. "The Grapes
of Roth: 'Diasporism' Between Portnoy and Shylock." Literary Strategies:
Jewish Texts and Contexts. Ed. Ezra Mendelsohn. New York: Oxford UP,
1996: 148-158. |
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Fisch, Harold. "Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." New Stories for
Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel. New York: St. Martin's,
1998. 133-53. |
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Fishman,
Sylvia Barack. "Homelands of the Heart: Israel and Jewish Identity
in American Jewish Fiction." Envisioning Israel: The Changing
Ideals and Images of North America Jews. Ed. Allon Gal.
Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996. 271-92. |
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Franco,
Dean J. "The Jew Who Got Away." Ethnic American
Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing.
Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006. 29-54. |
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Furman, Andrew.
"What Drives Philip Roth?" Contemporary Jewish American
Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled.
Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000. 22-39. |
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Gilman,
Sander L. "Philip Roth and Hanif Kureishi Confront Success."
Multiculturalism and the Jews. New York: Routledge, 2006.
125-43. |
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Girgus, Sam B.
"The Jew as Underground Man: Philip Roth." The New Covenant:
Jewish Writers and the Academic Idea. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina P, 1984. 118-32. |
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—. "'The
New Covenant' and the Dilemma of Dissensus: Bercovitch, Roth,
and Doctorow." Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and
Interpretive Theory. Ed. Ellen Spolsky. Albany: SUNY
P, 1993. 251-70. |
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—. "Philip Roth and
Woody Allen: Freud and the Humor of the Repressed." Semites and Stereotypes:
Characteristics of Jewish Humor. Eds. Avner Ziv and Anat Zajdman. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1993. 121-30. |
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Goodheart,
Eugene. “Counterlives: Philip Roth in Autobiography and Fiction.”
Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003.
161-74. |
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—. "'Postmodern'
Meditations on the Self: The Work of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo." Desire
and Its Discontents. New York: Columbia UP, 1991. |
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Grebstein,
Sheldon. "The Comic Anatomy of Portnoy's Complaint."
Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature.
Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1978.
152-71. |
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Green, Geoffrey. "Metamorphosing
Kafka: The Example of Philip Roth." The Dove and the Mole: Kafka's Journey
into Darkness and Creativity. Ed. Ronald Gottesman and Moshe Lazar.
Malibu: Undena, 1987. 35-46. |
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Green,
Jeremy. "The Fall of the House of Silk." Late Postmodernism:
American Fiction at the Millennium. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005. 63-74. |
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Gregson,
Ian. "Philip Roth's Vulgar, Aggressive Clowning." Character and
Satire in Postwar Fiction. New York: Continuum, 2006.
55-77. |
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Gross,
Kenneth. "Operation Shylock." Shylock Is
Shakespeare. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. 158-73. |
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Guttman, Allen. "Philip Roth and
the Rabbis." The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis
of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. 64-76. |
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Hellweg, Martin.
"Philip Roth, 'Eli, the Fantic' (1959)." The Vision of This
Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl
Sandburg. Ed. John E. Hallwas and Dennis J. Reader.
Macomb: Western Illinois UP, 1976. 215-25. |
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Hendin, Josephine G. "The Lady Is a
Terrorist: Women, Violence, and Political Action." Heartbreakers:
Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature. New
York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004. 151-204. |
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Hendley, W. Clark. "Philip Roth's
The Ghost Writer: A Bildungsroman for Today." Design, Pattern,
Style: Hallmarks of a Developing American Culture. Ed. Don Harkness.
Tampa: American Studies Press, 1983. 45-47. |
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Hornung, Alfred. "The Transgression
of Postmodern Fiction: Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick. Affirmation and
Negation in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and
Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1994. 229-249. |
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Hungerford, Amy. "Bellow, Roth, and the Secret of Identity."
The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 122-51. |
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—. "Teaching Fiction, Teaching the Holocaust."
Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. Ed.
Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes.
New York: MLA, 2004. 180-90. |
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Kahn-Paycha,
Danièle. Popular Jewish Literature and Its Role in the Making of
an Identity. Lewistown, NY: Edwin Mellen P. NOTE: Although there
is no individual chapter devoted to Roth, several substantial
sections of the book concern his writings. |
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Karl,
Frederick R. "Roth and Updike, Zuckerman and Rabbit--Jewish
and Gentile Perspectives of America." American Fictions:
1980-2000: Whose America Is It Anyway? Xlibris.
2001. 377-407. |
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Kaufmann, David. "Harold's Complaint, or Assimilation in Full
Bloom." British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture,
Literature. Ed. Sheila A. Spector. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
249-63. |
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Kavaloski, Josh. "Humor and the Representation of Jewish Culture in
Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and in Jurek Becker's
Jacob the Liar." Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of
Cultural Difference. Ed. David Metzger and Peter Schulman.
Santa Monica, CA: Kol Katan P, 2005. 32-48. |
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Kazan, Alfred. "The Earthly City
of Jews." Bright Book of Life. Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and
Co., 1973. 144-49. |
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—. “The
Earthly City of the Jews: Bellow, Malamud, and Roth.” Alfred
Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings. Ed. Ted
Solotarof. 2003. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. 255-69. |
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Kermode,
Frank. "Philip Roth." Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf to Philip
Roth. London: Allen Lane, 2001. 256-65. |
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Keulks,
Gavin. "The Amises on American Literature: Nabokov, Bellow, Roth."
Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel
since 1950. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003. 33-65. |
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Kley,
Antje. "'Pirandellische Spiele mit der Mehrdeutigkeit': Philip
Roth's My Life as a Man und The Facts: A Novelist's
Autobiography." "Das erlesene Selbst" in der
autobiographischen Schrift: Zu Politik und Poetik der
Selbstreflexion bei Roth, Delany, Lorde und Kingston.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, 2001. 105-66. |
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Koelb, Clayton.
"The Metamorphosis of the Classics: John Barth, Philip Roth, and the
European Tradition." Tradition, Voices, and Dreams: The
American Novel since the 1960s. Ed. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben
Siegel. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995. 108-28. |
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Krieger,
Gottfried. "Philip Roth." Amerikanische Literatur der
Gegenwart. Ed. Martin Christadler. Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner, 1973. 129-54. |
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Krupnick, Mark.
"Jewish Autobiographies and the Counter-Example of Philip Roth."
American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin
J. Friedman. Ed. Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.
Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999. 155-67. |
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"Jewish Jacobites: Henry James's Presence in the Fiction of Philip
Roth and Cynthia Ozick." Tradition, Voices, and Dreams: The
American Novel since the 1960s. Ed. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben
Siegel. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995. 89-107. |
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—. "'A Shit-Filled Life':
Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater." Jewish Writing and the
Deep Places of the Imagination. Ed. Jean K. Carney and Mark
Shechner. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2005. 15-39. |
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—. "'We Are Here to Be
Humiliated': Philip Roth's Recent Fiction." Jewish Writing and
the Deep Places of the Imagination. Ed. Jean K. Carney and Mark
Shechner. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2005. 40-50. |
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Lyons, Bonnie. "Philip Roth and
Jewish American Literature at the Millennium." Jewish American
and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World.
Ed. Alan L. Berger and Gloria L. Cronin. Albany: State U of New York
P, 2004. 167-78. |
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Marcus,
Greil. "Philip Roth and the Lost Republic." The Shape
of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice. New
York: Farrar, 2006. 41-100. |
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McDonald, Paul. "'Have You Heard the One about God?':
Representations of Religion in the Comic Work of Woody Allen and
Philip Roth." Religion in America: European and American
Perspectives. Ed. Hans Krabbendam and Derek Rubin. Amsterdam: VU
UP, 2004. 157-64. |
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Messmer, Marietta. “Beyond Ethnicity?: Reading Philip Roth’s The
Human Stain.” American Vistas and Beyond: A Festschrift for
Roland Hagenbüchle. Ed. Marietta Messmer and Josef Raab. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 285-300. |
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Michaels, Walter Benn. "Our Favorite Victims." The
Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore
Inequality. New York: Metropolitan-Henry Holt, 2006.
50-79. |
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Michel, Pierre.
"Philip Roth's Hesitations." Proceedings of a
Symposium on American Literature. Ed. Marta Sienicka. Poznan: Uniw. Im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1979. 151-59. |
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Millard,
Kenneth. "Philip Roth: American Pastoral." Contemporary
American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 239-48. |
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Miller,
Nancy K. "Childless Children: Bodies and Betrayal." In Memory of
Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death. Ed. Richard E.
Goodkin. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2007. 110-28. |
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Moran,
Joe. "Reality Shift: Philip Roth." Star Authors:
Literary Celebrity in America. London: Pluto, 2000.
100-15. |
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Mullan,
John. How Novels Work. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
[NOTE:
There is no one chapter devoted to Roth, but several sections of the
text concern The Human Stain. See, in particular, the
chapters “Beginning,” "People," "Style," and “Devices.”] |
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Nelson, Gerald B. "Neil Klugman."
Ten Versions of America. New York: Knopf, 1972. 147-62. |
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Newton,
Adam Zachary. "'Words generally spoil things' and 'Giving a man
final say': Facing History in David Bradley and Philip Roth."
Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in
Twentieth-Century America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP,
1999.
81-110. |
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Omer-Sherman, Ranen. "'No Coherence'": Philip Roth's
Lamentations for Diaspora." Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish
American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth.
Hanover: Brandeis UP, 2002. 191-233. |
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"'A Stranger in the House': Assimilation, Madness, and Passing
in Roth's Fiture of the Pariah Jew in Sabbath's Theater
(1995), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain
(2000)." Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American
Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth. Hanover:
Brandeis UP, 2002. 234-66. |
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Oster, Judith.
Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish
American Literature. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2003.
[NOTE: There is no one chapter devoted to Roth, but several sections
of the text concern his writings. See, in particular, the chapters
“Heaping Bowls and Narrative Hungers” and “Writing the Way Home.”] |
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Parrish, Tim.
"Philip Roth: The Jew That Got Away." Walking Blues: Making
Americans from Emerson to Elvis. Amherst: U of Mass P,
2001. 141-80. |
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