Table of Contents
Introduction - After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination Aimee Pozorski1 “Every third thought shall be my grave”: Roth, Memento Mori, and StoryDebra Shostak2 Roth @ 25: Publishing Goodbye, ColumbusIra Nadel 3 “A Human Being Lives Here”: Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency Claudia Brühwiler4 “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 HumblingDavid 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 ShylockAlex Calder 8 “My Kinsmen, My Precursors”: Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities Catherine Morley9 “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 HumblingAmy Gelbart 11 Newark: The Shtetl Mark Shechner Afterword - Mark Shechner’s LegacyDavid Gooblar