Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.
Preface / Jay Halio, Ben Siegel -- Introduction : reading Philip Roth : facts and fancy, fiction and autobiography -- a brief overview / Ben Siegel -- Philip Roth's fictions of self-exposure / Debra Shostak -- Textualizing the self : adultery, blatant fictions, and Jewishness in Philip Roth's deception / G. Neelakantan -- Texts, lives, and bellybuttons : Philip Roth's operation shylock and the renegotiation of subjectivity / Derek Parker Royal -- The travels of the American Talush / Alexis Kate Wilson -- Autobiography : false confession? / Margaret Smith -- Death, mourning, and Besse's ghost : from Philip Roth's the facts to Sabbath's theater / James M. Mellard -- Philip Roth's American tragedies / Bonnie Lyons -- The end of identity : Philip Roth's Jewish American pastoral / Timothy L. Parrish -- The critique of utopia in Philip Roth's the counterlife and American pastoral / Andrew Gordon -- Newark maid feminism in Philip Roth's American pastoral / Marshall Bruce Gentry -- Reading race and the conundrums of reconciliation in Philip Roth's the human stain / Brett Ashley Kaplan -- The dying animal : the art of obsessing or obsessing about art? / Ellen L. Gerstle -- Eros and death in Roth's later fiction / Jay L. Halio.
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"The time would appear ripe then to take a closer look at Roth's more recent or "later" fiction. That is the intent of this gathering of critical essays. This is the only essay collection devoted primarily to Roth's fiction of the last two decades. It includes fourteen essays, written by some of the leading Roth specialists in this country and abroad."--Jacket.