Reading Philip Roth

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
An Interview with Philip Roth....Pages 1-12
The Artist as a Jewish Writer....Pages 13-16
From Newark to Prague: Roth’s Place in the American-Jewish Literary Tradition....Pages 17-32
The Shape of Exile in Philip Roth, or the Part is Always Apart....Pages 33-49
Strangers in a Strange Land: The Homelessness of Roth’s Protagonists....Pages 50-72
Half a Lemon, Half an Egg....Pages 73-81
Fictions of Metamorphosis: From Goodbye, Columbus to Portnoy’s Complaint....Pages 82-104
Fiction, Show Business, and the Land of Opportunity: Roth in the Early Seventies....Pages 105-125
Portnoy’s Prayer: Philip Roth and the American Unconscious....Pages 126-143
‘None Other’: The Subject of Roth’s My Life as a Man....Pages 144-159
Some Notes on Roth’s My Life as a Man and The Professor of Desire....Pages 160-167
The Son is Father to the Man....Pages 168-179
The Unspeakable Self: Philip Roth and the Imagination....Pages 180-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-205