Prof. Derek P. Royal

ENG 522 – Major Figures in American Literature

 

Weekly Critical Reading List

 

 

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories

 

Primary List

 

Isaac, Dan.  “In Defense of Philip Roth.”  Chicago Review  17.2  (1964): 84-96.   (In Pinsker, on reserve)

 

McDaniel, John L.  “The Activist Hero in Roth’s Fiction” and “The Victim-Hero in Roth’s Fiction.”  The Fiction of Philip Roth.  Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974.  37-76, 98-111.  (on reserve)

 

Pinsker, Sanford.  “Newark, Through a Glass Darkly.”  The Comedy That “Hoits”: An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth.  Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1975.  4-28.  (on reserve)

 

Rodgers, Bernard, Jr.  “The Disapproving Moralist and the Libidinous Slob (“Goodbye, Columbus”).”  Philip Roth.  New York: Twayne, 1978.  34-46.  (on reserve)

 

Jones, Judith Paterson and Guinevera A. Nance.  “Good Girls and Boys Gone Bad.”  Philip Roth.  New York: Unger, 1981.  9-37.  (on reserve)

 

Gross, Barry. “American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of ‘The Human Negro’ in Philip Roth.” MELUS 11.2 (1984): 5-22.

 

Nilsen, Helge Normann. “On Love and Identity: Neil Klugman’s Quest in ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’” English Studies 68 (1987): 79-88.

 

France, Alan W. “Reconsideration: Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus and the Limits of Commodity Culture.” MELUS 15:4 (1988): 83-89.

 

Nash, Charles C. “From West Egg to Short Hills: The Decline of the Pastoral Ideal from The Great Gatsby to Philip Roth’s ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 13 (1988): 22-27.  (on reserve)

 

Novak, Estelle Gershgoren.  “Strangers in a Strange Land: The Homelessness of Roth’s Protagonists.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  50-72.  (on reserve)

 

Waxman, Barbara Frey. “Jewish American Princesses, Their Mothers, and Feminist Psychology: A Rereading of Roth’s ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’” Studies in American Jewish Literature 7 (1988): 90-104.

 

Halio, Jay L.  “Nice Jewish Boys: The Comedy of ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ and the Early Stories.”  Philip Roth Revisited.  New York: Twayne, 1992.  13-36.  (on reserve)

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Starting Out.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  24-50.  (on reserve)

 

 

Secondary List

 

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.

 

Leer, Norman.  “Escape and Confrontation in the Short Stories of Philip Roth.”  The Christian Scholar  49  (1966): 132-46.

 

Roth, David S.  “‘The Conversion of the Jews’: What Hath Mother Wrought?”  Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers  3.2  (1976):  39-42.  (on reserve)

 

Rodgers, Bernard, Jr.  “People in Trouble (Five Stories).”  Philip Roth.  New York: Twayne, 1978.  19-33.  (on reserve)

 

Noguchi, Rei R.  “Talking and Meaning in Dialogue: The Semantic Significance of Sociolinguistic Codes.”  Journal of Literary Semantics  13  (1984): 109-24.

 

Tippens, Darryl. “The Shechinah Theme in Roth’s ‘Conversion of the Jews.” Christianity and Literature 35 (1986): 13-20.  (on reserve)

 

Searles, George J. “The Mouths of Babes: Childhood Epiphany in Roth’s ‘Conversion of the Jews’ and Updike’s ‘Pigeon Feathers.’” Studies in Short Fiction 24 (1987): 59-62.

 

Francis, William A. “Naming in Philip Roth’s ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’” Literary Onomastics Studies 15 (1988): 59-62.  (on reserve)

 

Gittleman, Sol. “The Pecks of Woodenton, Long Island, Thirty Years Later: Another Look at ‘Eli, the Fanatic.’” Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 138-42.  (on reserve)

 

Tindall, Samuel J. “‘Flinging a Shot Put’ in Philip Roth’s ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’” ANQ 2 (1989): 58-60.

 

Simon, Elliott M. “Philip Roth’s ‘Eli, the Fanatic’: The Color of Blackness.” Yiddish 7:4 (1990): 39-48.  (on reserve)

 

Budick, Emily Miller.  “Philip Roth’s Jewish Family Marx and the Defense of Faith.” Arizona Quarterly 52 (1996): 55-70.  (on reserve)

 

Theoharis, Theoharis C.  “‘For with God All Things Are Possible’: Philip Roth’s ‘The Conversion of the Jews.’”  Journal of the Short Story in English  32  (1999):  69-75.  (on reserve)

 

Wirth-Nesher, Hana.  “Resisting Allegory; or, Reading ‘Eli, the Fanatic’ in Tel Aviv.”  Prooftexts  21  (2001):  103-12.

 

Durban, James.  “Being Jewish in the Twentieth Century: The Synchronicity of Roth and Hawthorne.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  21  (2002): 1-11.  (on reserve)

 

Capo, Beth Widmaier.  “Inserting the Diaphragm In(to) Modern American Fiction: Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth, and the Literature of Contraception.”  Journal of American Culture  26.1  (2003):  111-23.

 

Goldblatt, Roy.  “As Plain as the Nose on Your Face: The Nose as the Organ of Othering.” Amerikastudien/American Studies  48.4  (2003): 563-76.  (on reserve)

 

 

 

Portnoy’s Complaint

 

Primary List

 

Bettelheim, Bruno.  “Portnoy Psychoanalyzed.” Midstream 15 (1969): 3-10.  (in Bloom, on reserve)

 

Cohen, Eileen Z.  “Alex in Wonderland, or Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Twentieth-Century Literature  17  (1971):  161-68.

 

Howe, Irving. “Philip Roth Reconsidered.” Commentary Dec. 1972: 69-77.  (in Pinsker, on reserve)

 

McDaniel, John L.  “The Victim-Hero in Roth’s Fiction.”  The Fiction of Philip Roth.  Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974.  132-48.  (on reserve)

 

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.

 

Pinsker, Sanford.  “Life inside a Jewish Joke.”  The Comedy That “Hoits”: An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth.  Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1975.  55-71.  (on reserve)

 

Rodgers, Bernard, Jr.  “In the American Grain (Portnoy’s Complaint).”  Philip Roth.  New York: Twayne, 1978.  80-96.  (on reserve)

 

Gross, Barry.  “Seduction of the Innocent: Portnoy’s Complaint and Popular Culture.”  MELUS  8.4  (1981):  81-92.

 

Jones, Judith Paterson and Guinevera A. Nance.  “Good Girls and Boys Gone Bad.”  Philip Roth.  New York: Unger, 1981.  72-85.  (on reserve)

 

Forrey, Robert.  “Oedipal Politics in Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Critical Essays on Philip Roth. Ed. Sanford Pinsker.  Boston: Hall, 1982.  66-74.  (on reserve)

 

Gross, Barry.  “Sophie Portnoy and ‘The Opossum’s Death’: American Sexism and Jewish Anti-Gentilism.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 3 (1983): 166-78. (on reserve)

 

Nilsen, Helge Normann.  “Rebellion Against Jewishness: Portnoy’s Complaint.” English Studies 65 (1984): 495-503.

 

Berman, Jeffrey.  “Philip Roth’s Psychoanalysts.”  The Talking Cure: Literary Representation of Psychoanalysts.  New York: New York UP, 1985.  239-69.

 

Workman, Mark E. “The Serious Consequences of Ethnic Humor in Portnoy’s Complaint.” Midwest Folklore 13.7 (1987): 16-26.  (on reserve)

 

Girgus, Sam B.  “Portnoy’s Prayer: Philip Roth and the American Unconscious.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  126-43.  (on reserve)

 

Halio, Jay L.  “The Comedy of Excess: Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Philip Roth Revisited.  New York: Twayne, 1992.  67-82.  (on reserve)

 

Girgus, Sam B.  “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.  (on reserve)

 

Frank, Thomas H.  “The Interpretation of Limits: Doctors and Novelists in the Fiction of Philip Roth.”  Journal of Popular Culture  28.4  (1995):  67-80.

 

Cooper, Alan.  “The Alex Perplex.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  94-124.  (on reserve)

 

Brauner, David.  “Masturbation and Its Discontents, or, Serious Relief: Freudian Comedy in Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Critical Review  40  (2000):  75-90.  (on reserve)

 

Milowitz, Steven.  “Portnovian Dilemmas.”  Philip Roth Considered: The Concentraionary Universe of the American Writer.  New York: Garland, 2000.  129-45.  (on reserve)

 

Moran, Joe.  “Reality Shift: Philip Roth.”  Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America.  London: Pluto, 2000.  100-15.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “The Road of Excess.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  28-43.  (on reserve)

 

Secondary List

 

Kliman, Bernice W.  “Names in Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Critique  14.3  (1973):  16-24.

 

Michel, Pierre.  “Portnoy’s Complaint and Philip Roth’s Complexities.”  Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters  4  (1974):  1-10.  (on reserve)

 

Lavine, Steven David.  “The Degradations of Erotic Life: Portnoy’s Complaint Reconsidered.”  Michigan Academician  11  (1979):  357-62.  (on reserve)

 

Charney, Maurice.  “Sexuality and Self-Fulfillment: Portnoy’s Complaint and Fear of Flying.”  Sexual Fiction.  London: Methuen, 1981.  113-31.  (on reserve)

 

Hou, Chien.  “Portnoy’s Complaint: The Scatological Consciousness.”  ASA ROC Newsletter  9  (1984):  10-19.  (on reserve)

 

Kartiganer, Donald.  “Fictions of Metamorphosis: From Goodbye, Columbus to Portnoy’s Complaint.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  82-104.  (on reserve)

 

Schehr, Lawrence R.  “Fragments of a Poetics: Bonnetain and Roth.”  Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary, and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism.  Ed. Paula Bennett and Vernon A. Rosario.  New York: Routledge, 1995.  215-30.  (on reserve)

 

Görg, Claudia.  “Portnoy, the American Jew in Israel.”  International Fiction Review  23  (1996):  59-66.  (on reserve)

 

McDonald, Paul.  “The ‘Unmaning’ Word: Language, Masculinity, and Political Correctness in the Work of David Mamet and Philip Roth.”  Journal of American Studies of Turkey  7  (1998):  23-30.  (on reserve)

 

Ziewacz, Lawrence E.  “Holden Caulfield, Alex Portnoy, and Good Will Hunting: Coming of Age in American Films and Novels.”  Journal of Popular Culture  35.1  (2001):  211-18.

 

 

 

“On the Air”

 

Cooper, Alan.  “The Most Offensive Piece Roth Ever Wrote.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  140-57.  (on reserve)

 

 

My Life as a Man

 

Pinsker, Sanford.  “Peter Tarnopol and the ‘Hoits’ of Manhood.”  The Comedy That “Hoits”: An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth.  Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1975.  101-21.  (on reserve)

 

Rodgers, Bernard, Jr.  “Such Things Simply Do Not Happen (My Life as a Man).”  Philip Roth.  New York: Twayne, 1978.  141-56.  (on reserve)

 

Siegel, Ben.  “The Novelist as Narcissus: Philip Roth’s My Life as a Man.”  Descant  24.1-2  (1979):  61-79.  (on reserve)

 

Amur, G. S.  “Philip Roth’s My Life as a Man: Portrait of the Artist as a Trapped Husband.”  Indian Journal of American Studies  14.2  (1984):  61-66.  (on reserve)

 

Singh, Lovelina.  “The Sexual Kvetch of Philip Roth’s Protagonists in Portnoy’s Complaint, My Life as a Man, and The Professor of Desire.”  Panjab University Research Bulletin  16  (1985):  17-24.  (on reserve)

 

Dodd, Philip. “History or Fiction: Balancing Contemporary Autobiography’s Claims.” Mosaic 20 (1987): 61-69.  (on reserve)

 

Kundera, Milan.  “Some Notes on Roth’s My Life as a Man and The Professor of Desire.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  160-67.  (on reserve)

 

O’Donnell, Patrick.  “‘None Other’: The Subject of Roth’s My Life as a Man.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  144-59.  (on reserve)

 

Halio, Jay L.  “Playing with Autobiography: My Life as a Man.”  Philip Roth Revisited.  New York: Twayne, 1992.  126-41.  (on reserve)

 

Robinson, Sally.  “The ‘Myth of Male Inviolability’: Somatic Disintegration in Philip Roth’s My Life As a Man.”  Marked Men: While Masculinity in Crisis.  New York: Columbia UP, 2000.  89-101.  (on reserve)

 

Shechner, Mark.  “Analysis Terminable: My Life as a Man.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  51-61.  (on reserve)

 

 

The Ghost Writer

 

Primary List

 

O’Donnell, Patrick. “The Disappearing Text: Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer.” Contemporary Literature 24 (1983): 365-78.

 

Hendley, W. Clark. “An Old Form Revitalized: Philip Roth’s Ghost Writer and the Bildungsroman.” Studies in the Novel 16 (1984): 87-100.

 

Pinsker, Sanford.  “Marrying Anne Frank: Modernist Art , the Holocaust, and Mr. Philip Roth.” Literature, the Arts, and the Holocaust.  Ed. Sanford Pinsker and Jack Fischel. Greenwood: Penkevill, 1987. 43-58.  (on reserve)

 

Rubin-Dorsky, Jeffrey.  “Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer: Literary Heritage and Jewish Irreverence.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 168-85.  (on reserve)

 

Trachtenberg, Stanley. “In the Egosphere: Philip Roth’s Anti-Bildungsroman.” Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 326-41.

 

Berryman, Charles.  “Philip Roth and Nathan Zuckerman: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Prometheus.” Contemporary Literature 31 (1990): 177-90.

 

Wilson, Matthew.  “The Ghost Writer: Kafka, Het Achterhuis, and History.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 44-53.  (on reserve)

 

Halio, Jay L.  “Comic Bildungsroman: Zuckerman Bound.”  Philip Roth Revisited.  New York: Twayne, 1992.  157-65.  (on reserve)

 

Pugh, Thomas. “Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Novels as a Comic ‘Kunstler-Roman.’” Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, and Philip Roth. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1994. 83-125.  (on reserve)

 

Budick, Emily Miller.  “The Haunted House of Fiction: Ghost Writing the Holocaust.”  Common Knowledge  5  (1996):  121-35.  (on reserve)

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Zuckerman Bound.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  179-209.  (on reserve)

 

Milowitz, Steven.  “The Ghost Writer.”  Philip Roth Considered: The Concentraionary Universe of the American Writer.  New York: Garland, 2000.  23-58.  (on reserve)

 

Spargo, R. Clifton.  “To Invent as Presumptuously as Real Life: Parody and the Cultural Memory of Anne Frank in Roth’s The Ghost Writer.”  Representations  76  (2001):  88-119.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “This Is How I Will Live: The Ghost Writer.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  67-75.  (on reserve)

 

Secondary List

 

Tintner, Adeline R.  “Henry James as Roth’s Ghost Writer.”  Midstream  27.3  (1981):  48-51.  (on reserve)

 

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.  (on reserve)

 

Rubin, Derek. “Philip Roth and Nathan Zuckerman: Offences of the Imagination.” Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 13 (1983): 42-54.  (on reserve)

 

Oakes, Randy W. “Faces of the Master in Roth’s The Ghost Writer.” NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 8 (1984): Item 11.

 

Rugoff, Kathy. “Humor and the Muse in Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer.” Studies in American Humor ns 4 (1985-86): 242-48.  (on reserve)

 

Sinclair, Clive.  “The Son is Father to the Man.”  Reading Philip Roth.  Ed. Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.  168-79.  (on reserve)

 

Pinsker, Sanford.  “Jewish-American Literature’s Lost-and-Found Department: How Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick Reimagine Their Significant Dead.” Modern Fiction Studies 35 (1989): 223-35.  (on reserve)

 

Oostrum, Duco van.  “A Postholocaust Jewish House of Fiction: Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl) in Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer.”  Yiddish  9.3-4  (1994):  61-75.  (on reserve)

 

Rand, Naomi R.  “Surviving What Haunts You: The Art of Invisibility in Ceremony, The Ghost Writer, and Beloved.”  MELUS  20.3  (1995):  21-32.

 

Ravvin, Norman.  “Philip Roth’s Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank.”  A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory.  Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 1997.  64-84.  (on reserve)

 

Bloom, James D.  “For the Yankee Dead: Mukherjee, Roth, and the Diasporan Seizure of New England.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  17  (1998):  40-47.  (on reserve)

 

 

The Counterlife

 

Goodheart, Eugene. “Writing and the Unmaking of the Self.” Contemporary Literature 29 (1988): 438-53.

 

Cohen, Joseph. “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: Reflections on Philip Roth’s Recent Fiction.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 196-204.  (on reserve)

 

Friedman, Melvin J. “Texts and Countertexts: Philip Roth Unbound.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 224-30.  (on reserve)

 

Greenstein, Michael. “Ozick, Roth, and Postmodernism.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 54-64.  (on reserve)

 

Shostak, Debra.  “‘This Obsessive Reinvention of the Real’: Speculative Narrative in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.”  Modern Fiction Studies  37  (1991):  197-215.  (on reserve)

 

Sokoloff, Naomi. “Imagining Israel in American Jewish Fiction: Anne Roiphe’s Lovingkindness and Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 65-80.

 

Wilson, Matthew. “Fathers and Sons in History: Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.” Prooftexts 11 (1991): 41-56.

 

Halio, Jay L.  “The Comedy of Counterlives: The Counterlife and Deception.”  Philip Roth Revisited.  New York: Twayne, 1992.  181-96.  (on reserve)

 

Levy, Ellen. “Is Zuckerman Dead? Countertexts in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.” Caliban 29 (1992): 121-131.  (on reserve)

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Zuckerroth.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  210-29.  (on reserve)

 

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.  (on reserve)

 

Kremer, Lillian S.  “Philip Roth’s Self-Reflexive Fiction.”  Modern Language Studies  28.3  (1998):  56-72.  (on reserve)

 

Halio, Jay.  “Saul Bellow and Philip Roth Visit Jerusalem.”  Saul Bellow Journal  16.1 (1999): 49-56.  (on reserve)

 

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.  (on reserve)

 

Shechner, Mark.  “The Five Books of Nathan: The Counterlife.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  108-119.  (on reserve)

 

 

Patrimony: A True Story

 

Kamenetz, Rodger. “‘The Hocker, Misnomer . . . Love/Dad’: Philip Roth’s Patrimony.” The Southern Review 27 (1991): 937-45.

 

Tabayashi, Yo.  “Philip Roth and Therapeutic Narratives: A Reading of The Facts and Patrimony.”  Studies in English Literature  28  (1991):  323-37.  (on reserve)

 

Miller, Nancy K. “Autobiographical Deaths.” The Massachusetts Review 33 (1992): 19-47.

 

Rubin-Dorsky, Jeffrey. “Honor Thy Rather.” Raritan 11 (1992): 137-45.

 

Erde, E. L. “Philip Roth’s Patrimony: Narrative and Ethnics in a Case Study.” Theoretical Medicine 16 (1995): 239-252.  (on reserve)

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Zuckerroth.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  242-51.  (on reserve)

 

Waxman, Barbara Frey.  “Feeding the ‘Hunger of Memory’ and an Appetite for the Future: The Ethnic ‘Storied’ Self and the American Authored Self in Ethnic Autobiography.”  Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders.  Ed. John Hawley.  Albany: SUNY P, 1996.  207-19.  (on reserve)

 

Kahane, Claire.  “Gender and Patrimony: Mourning the Dead Father.”  Differences  9  (1997):  49-67.

 

Iannone, Carol. “Jewish Fathers and Sons and Daughters.” The American Scholar 67 (1998): 131-138.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “You Must Not Forget Anything: Patrimony.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  126-31.  (on reserve)

 

Weissberg, Liliane.  “Paternal Lines: Philip Roth Writes His Autobiography.”  Zeitgenössische Jüdische Autobiographie. Ed. Christoph Miething.  Tübingen, German: Niemeyer, 2003.  179-95.  (on reserve)

 

Gordon, Andrew.  “Jewish Fathers and Sons in Spiegelman’s Maus and Roth’s Patrimony.”  ImageTexT  1.1  (2004):  50 pars.  1 June 2004  <http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/volume1/issue1/gordon/index.html>

 

 

Operation Shylock

 

Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven, Daniel Lazare, Daphne Merkin, Morris Dickstein, and Anita Norich. “Philip Roth’s Diasporism: A Symposium.” Tikkun 8:3 (1993): 41-45, 73.

 

Furman, Andrew.  “A New ‘Other’ Emerges in American Jewish Literature: Philip Roth’s Israel Fiction.” Contemporary Literature 36 (1995): 633-53.

 

Kauvar, Elaine M. “This Doubly Reflected Communication: Philip Roth’s ‘Autobiographies.’” Contemporary Literature 36 (1995): 412-46.

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Operation Shylock.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  252-80.  (on reserve)

 

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.  (on reserve)

 

Safer, Elaine B. “The Double, Comic Irony, and Postmodernism in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.” MELUS 21:4 (1996): 157-172.

 

Fishman, Sylvia Barack.  “Success in Circuit Lies: Philip Roth’s Recent Explorations of American Jewish Identity.”  Jewish Social Studies  3  (1997):  132-55.

 

Shostak, Debra.  “The Diaspora Jew and the ‘Instinct for Impersonation’: Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.”  Contemporary Literature  38  (1997):  726-54.

 

Lehmann, Sophia.  “Exodus and Homeland: The Representation of Israel in Saul Bellow’s To Jerusalem and Back and Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.”  Religion and Literature  30  (1998):  77-96.  (on reserve)

 

Parrish, Timothy L.  “Imagining Jews in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.”  Contemporary Literature  40  (1999):  575-602.

 

Rothberg, Michael.  “Reading Jewish: Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, and Holocaust Postmemory.”  Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000.  187-219.  (on reserve)

 

Daleski, H. M.  “Philip Roth’s To Jerusalem and Back.”  Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature.  Ed. Emily Miller Budick.  Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.  79-94.

 

Rubin-Dorsky, Jeffrey.  “Philip Roth and American Jewish Identity: The Question of Authenticity.”  American Literary History  13  (2001):  79-107.

 

Scanlan, Margaret. “Philip Roth’s and Robert Stone’s Jerusalem Novels.” Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 2001. 123-38.  (on reserve)

 

Levy, Paule.  “The Text as Homeland: A Reading of Philip Roth’s The Counterlife and Operation Shylock.  Studies in American Jewish Literature  21  (2002):  61-71.  (on reserve)

 

Shechner, Mark.  “Let Your Jewish Conscience Be Your Guide: Operation Shylock.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  132-45.  (on reserve)

 

Walker, Joseph S. “A Kink in the System: Terrorism and the Comic Mystery Novel.” Studies in the Novel 36.3 (2004): 336-51.

 

 

Sabbath’s Theater

 

Cooper, Alan.  “Master Baiter: Sabbath’s Theater.”  Philip Roth and the Jews.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.  281-87.  (on reserve)

 

Gross, Kenneth. “Love among the Puppets.” Raritan 17.1 (1997): 67-82.

 

Shostak, Debra.  “Roth/Counter Roth: Postmodernism, the Masculine Subject, and Sabbath’s Theater .”  Arizona Quarterly  54  (1998):  119-42.  (on reserve)

 

Kelleter, Frank. “Portrait of the Sexist as a Dying Man: Death, Ideology, and the Erotic in Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.” Contemporary Literature 39 (1998): 262-302.

 

Safer, Elaine B.  “The Tragicomic in Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.”  American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman.  Ed. Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.  Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 1999.  168-79.

 

Woods, James.  “The Monk of Fornication: Philip Roth’s Nihilism.”  The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief.  New York: Random, 1999.  200-12.  (on reserve)

 

Mellard, James M.  “Death, Mourning, and Besse’s Ghost: From Philip Roth’s The Facts to Sabbath’s Theater.”  Shofar  19  (2000):  66-73.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “Sabbath’s Theater.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  146-53.  (on reserve)

 

Zucker, David J.  “Philip Roth: Desire and Death.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004): 135-44.  (on reserve)

 

 

American Pastoral

 

Schwartz, Jonathan.  “High School Classmates Revisited: Sherry Ortner and Philip Roth.”  Anthropology Today  14.6  (1998):  14-16.

 

Tintner, Adeline R.  “Philip Roth: Henry James’s Continuing Influence.”  Midstream  May-June 1998: 36-37.  (on reserve)

 

Alexander, Edward.  “Philip Roth at Century’s End.”  New England Review  20  (1999):  183-90.

 

Gentry, Marshall Bruce.  “Newark Maid Feminism in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.”  Shofar  19  (2000):  74-83.

 

Parrish, Timothy L.  “The End of Identity: Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.”  Shofar  19  (2000):  84-99.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “American Pastoral, or The Jewish King Lear.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  154-73.  (on reserve)

 

Hogan, Monika.  “‘Something so Visceral in with the Rhetorical’: Race, Hypochondria, and the Un-Assimilated Body in American Pastoral.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  1-14.  (on reserve)

 

Johnson, Gary.  “The Presence of Allegory: The Case of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.”  Narrative  12.3  (2004):  233-48.

 

MacArthur, Kathleen L.  “Shattering the American Pastoral: Philip Roth’s Vision of Trauma and the American Dream.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  15-26.  (on reserve)

 

McDonald, Brian.  “‘The Real American Crazy Shit’: On Adamism and Democratic Individuality in American Pastoral.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  27-40.  (on reserve)

 

Neelakantan, G.  “Monster in Newark: Philip Roth’s Apocalypse in American Pastoral.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  55-66.  (on reserve)

 

Tanenbaum, Laura.  “Reading Roth’s Sixties.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  41-54.  (on reserve)

 

 

 

The Human Stain

 

Posnock, Ross.  “Purity and Danger: On Philip Roth.”  Raritan  21.2  (2001):  85-103.

 

Duban, James.  “Being Jewish in the Twentieth Century: The Synchronicity of Roth and Hawthorne.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  21  (2002):  1-11.  (on reserve)

 

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.  (on reserve)

 

Safer, Elaine B.  “Tragedy and Farce in Roth’s The Human Stain.”  Critique  43  (2002):  211-27.

 

Savin, Ada.  “Exposure and Concealment in The Human Stain.”  Profils Américains: Philip Roth.  Ed. Paule Lévy and Ada Savin.  Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III: CERCLA, 2002. 181-97.  (on reserve)

 

Tierney, William G.  “Interpreting Academic Identities: Reality and Fiction on Campus.” Journal of Higher Education  73  (2002):  161-73.

 

Shechner, Mark.  “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: The Human Stain.”  Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  186-96.  (on reserve)

 

Brauner, David.  “American Anti-Pastoral: Incontinence and Impurity in American Pastoral and The Human Stain.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  67-76.  (on reserve)

 

Charis-Carlson, Jeffrey.  “Philip Roth’s Human Stains and Washington Pilgrimages.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  104-21.  (on reserve)

 

Franco, Dean J.  “Being Black, Being Jewish, and Knowing the Difference: Philip Roth’s The Human Stain; Or, It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Clinton’ Is.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  88-103.  (on reserve)

 

Mehlman, Jeffrey.  “Against France: An American Novelistic Fantasy.”  Diogenes  51.3  (2004):  121-32.

 

Parrish, Timothy L.  “Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.”  Contemporary Literature  45  (2004):  421-459.

 

Stow, Simon.  “Written and Unwritten America: Roth on Reading, Politics, and Theory.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004):  77-87.  (on reserve)

 

 

 

The Plot Against America

 

Schweber, Matthew S.  “Philip Roth’s Populist Nightmare.”  Cross Currents  54.4  (2004):  125-37.

 

(more essays/reviews on The Plot Against America will be added later in the semester)