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Annual Bibliography of Philip Roth Criticism and Resources—2016
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A bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2016, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues) is presented in this article.Abstract:
What follows is a bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2016, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues). All entries will reflect the format as defined in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook (2016). All sources are arranged in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name. Individual essays included in edited collections are grouped in “Book Chapters” and are cross-listed according to MLA style. Digital book editions, such as those designed for Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook readers, are not included in this listing. Given the recent growth in e-book technology, digital versions of Roth’s texts are becoming standard practice. This being the case, none of these e-book versions are included in this bibliography. Readers and researchers can easily visit online booksellers to find digital editions.read more
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Chapter 4: Assimilation and Appropriation: Contest and Collaboration in Global Suburbia
TL;DR: The authors traces the dynamic in American / Pastoral by Philip Roth, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen.
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Getting People Right. Getting Fiction Right: Self-Fashioning, Fictionality, and Ethics in the Roth Books
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue in favor of a simpler and more rhetorical model than used by these two leading scholars within narratological studies, arguing that self-fashioning novels use autobiographical material and means with the intention of reaching specific aesthetic ends, such as the author's name, as in autofiction, or other material such as gender and correspondence in history and identity.
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Nemesis and the Persistence of Tragic Framing: Bucky Cantor as Job, Hebrew Prometheus, and Reverse Oedipus.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the characteristics of the protagonist, Eugene "Bucky" Cantor, in order to define those elements that make him not only a Promethean figure, but a modern incarnation of the biblical Job.
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"Juice or Gravy?": —Philosophies of Composition by Roth, Poe, and Sartre
TL;DR: Roth's "Juice or gravy" as mentioned in this paper is an afterword to the Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary edition of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), which was published in the New York Times Book Review (18 September 1994).