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Annual Bibliography of Philip Roth Criticism and Resources—2015
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A bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2015, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues) can be found in this article.Abstract:
What follows is a bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2015, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues). All entries will reflect the format as defined in the third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2008). 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.BOOKSThe Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. Eds.Basu, Ann. States of Trial,-Manhood in Philip Roth's America. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Print.Kaplan, Brett Ashley. Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Print.EDITED COLLECTIONS AND SPECIAL ISSUESKoy, Christopher E., Ed. "The Worldliness of Philip Roth." Special issue of Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 25:49 (2015). Print.BOOK CHAPTERSAarons, Vicki. "The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction." The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. Eds. Brauner and Stahler 43-53. Print.Batnitzky, Leora. "Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis." The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics. Eds. Leora Batnitzky and Ilona Pardes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 2015. 213-24. Print.Budick, Emily Miller. "Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me." The Subject of Holocaust Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2015. 19-36. Print.Furst, Lilian R. "Ritualized Bellyaching: Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint." Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2015. 57-70. Print.Loffler, Philipp. "A Singular Act of Invention': Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American Trilogy." Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. 97-126. Print.Mosher, Paul W and Jeffrey Berman. "Angry Acts and Counteracts in Philip Roth's Life and Art." Confidentiality and its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy. New York: Fordham UP, 2015. 82-104. Print.-. "The Angry Act: The Psychoanalyst's Breach of Confidentiality in Philip Roth's Life and Art." Confidentiality and its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy. New York: Fordham UP, 2015. 63-81. Print.Osmanovic, Sabina. "Dealing with Evanescence: The Motif of Old Age and the Crisis of Meaning in Philip Roth's The Dying Animal." Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century. Eds. Aleksandra NikCeviC-Batricevic and Marija Krivokapic. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 175-81. Print.Pozorski, Aimee. "American Jewish Life Writing, Illness and the Ethics of Innovation." The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. Eds. Brauner and Stahler 43-53. Print.Scanlan, Margaret. "Strange Times to Be a Jew: Alternative History After 9/11." Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism. Eds. John Duvall and Robert Marzec. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins UP, 2015. 168-93. Print.Schreier, Benjamin. "Why Jews Aren't Normal: The Unrepresentable Future of Philip Roth's The Counterlife." The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History. New York: New York UP, 2015. 149-84. …read more
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“There Were No Longer Any Laws”: Voices of Authority, Complicity, and Resistance in Totalitarian Dystopias and Holocaust Imaginings
TL;DR: The authors analyzed five landmarks in totalitarian and dystopian fiction from a law-and-literature perspective, thus comparing works published between the 1920s and the first decade of the twenty-first century that fictionalize diametrically opposed ideologies of countries such as Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and the United States of America: Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize winning work Maus; Philip Roth's "dark, humane masterpiece" (The Times) of “faction,” The Plot Against America; Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, without which George Orwell's modern classic Nin
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From Negative Identity to Existential Nothingness: Philip Roth and the Younger Jewish Intellectuals
TL;DR: For instance, the authors suggests that ideas advanced in Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew (1946) helped Roth shape his essay and, more importantly, his early skepticism about religious affiliation grounded in hatred and chauvinism rather than in living, generative faith.
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Philip Roth's Other Europe: Counter-Realism and the Late Cold War
TL;DR: Roth was flagged after an informant told the Státní bezpečnost (StB) that Roth had met with "suspicious persons" during a visit to Prague earlier that spring.
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The Visual Apologetics of Philip Roth's Pastoral America
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the iconic intertexts that structure Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and argued that, when read through the pictures that guide it, it reflects a post-Cold War apologetics that rationalizes as much as it repents for the violence of the Vietnam War.
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Athleticism and Masculinity in Roth's American Trilogy and Exit Ghost
TL;DR: In fact, sport is so deeply entangled with the American idyll that the prototypical American is often a good athlete as discussed by the authors, and sport is also a marker for masculinity, and all the male main characters to whom Nathan attaches himself are athletic.
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Writ(h)ing Bodies: Literature and Illness in Philip Roth's Anatomy Lesson(s)
TL;DR: Roth as discussed by the authors argued that the drama of the diseased body ought to preoccupy writers more than the ravages of war: "Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia; lyrics to toothache. But no; with a few exceptions [...] literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null