Table of Contents
Introduction - After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination
Aimee Pozorski
1 “Every third thought shall be my grave”: Roth, Memento Mori, and Story
Debra Shostak
2 Roth @ 25: Publishing Goodbye, Columbus
Ira Nadel
3 “A Human Being Lives Here”: Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency
Claudia Brühwiler
4 “With an accomplice no less brilliant than Jean Genet”: A Comparative Approach to Roth’s Autofiction
Patrick Hayes
5 Performance Anxiety: Impotence, Queerness, and the “Drama of Self-Disgust” in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire and The Humbling
David Brauner
6 Stalkers, Furies, and Comforters: Roth’s Grave Comedy of Persecution
Aurélie Guillain
7 “I told my wrath, my Roth did grow”: Anger in Operation Shylock
Alex Calder
8 “My Kinsmen, My Precursors”: Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities
Catherine Morley
9 “I was the prosthesis”: Roth and Late Style
Adam Zachary Newton
10 Performance, Affective Adaptation, Memory, Pretend Play, and Suicide in Philip Roth's The Humbling
Amy Gelbart
11 Newark: The Shtetl
Mark Shechner
Afterword - Mark Shechner’s Legacy
David Gooblar