Prof. Derek P. Royal

ENG 522 – Major Figures in American Literature

Works on Reserve in the Library

Primary Material on Reserve

BOOKS:

The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography. New York: Farrar, 1988.

Reading Myself and Others. New York: Farrar, 1975.

STORIES:

“The Day It Snowed.” Chicago Review 8 (1954): 34-45.

“The Contest for Aaron Gold.” Epoch 5-6 (1955): 37-50.

“Heard Melodies Are Sweeter.” Esquire Aug. 1958: 58.

“Expect the Vandals.” Esquire Dec. 1958: 208-28.

“The Love Vessel.” The Dial 1 (1959): 41-68.

“The Good Girl.” Cosmopolitan May 1960: 98-103.

“The Mistaken.” American Judaism 10 (1960): 10.

“Novotny’s Pain.” New Yorker 27 Oct. 1962: 46-56.

“Psychoanalytic Special.” Esquire Nov. 1963: 106.

“An Actor’s Life for Me.” Playboy Jan. 1964: 84-86, 228-35.

“On the Air.” New American Review 10 (1970): 7-49.

“His Mistress’s Voice.” Partisan Review 53 (1986): 155-176.

Critical Material on Reserve

Bloom, Harold, ed. Philip Roth: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

—, ed. Portnoy’s Complaint: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 2004.

Cooper, Alan. Philip Roth and the Jews. Albany: State U of New York P, 1996.

Halio, Jay L. Philip Roth Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Jones, Judith Paterson, and Guinevera A. Nance. Philip Roth. New York: Ungar, 1981.

Lee, Herminone. Philip Roth. New York: Methuen, 1982.

McDaniel, John N. The Fiction of Philip Roth. Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974.

Meeter, Glenn. Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth: A Critical Essay. Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 1968.

Milbauer, Asher Z., and Donald G. Watson, eds. Reading Philip Roth. New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.

Milowitz, Stephen. Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer. New York: Garland, 2000.

Pinsker, Sanford. The Comedy That “Hoits”: An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1975.

—, ed. Critical Essays on Philip Roth. Boston: Hall, 1982.

Rodgers, Bernard F., Jr. Philip Roth. Boston: Twayne, 1978.

Royal, Derek Parker, ed. Philip Roth’s America: The Later Novels. Spec. issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature 23 (2004): 1-181.

Shechner, Mark. Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.

Shostak, Debra. Philip Roth - Countertexts, Counterlives. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 2004.

Searles, George J., ed. Conversations with Philip Roth. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1992.

—. The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1985.