Roth after Eighty

David Gooblar is a lecturer in the Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa.Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English Graduate Studies at Central Connecticut State University.

This collection of new essays is a most fitting tribute to the 'end' of Philip Roth’s long and prolific career. The rich and varied approaches to Roth’s fiction contained in these pages reflect the enduring influence of one of the major voices of late twentieth-early twenty first century American life and thought. The essays artfully arranged in this volume seamlessly and gracefully paint a portrait of this ingeniously complex writer of our time.

• Introduction - After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination Aimee Pozorski1 “Every third thought shall be my grave”: Roth, Memento Mori, and StoryDebra Shostak2 Roth @ 25: Publishing Goodbye, ColumbusIra Nadel 3 “A Human Being Lives Here”: Philip Roth on Scandals and the American Presidency Claudia Brühwiler4 “With an accomplice no less brilliant than Jean Genet”: A Comparative Approach to Roth’s Autofiction Patrick Hayes 5 Performance Anxiety: Impotence, Queerness, and the “Drama of Self-Disgust” in Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire and The HumblingDavid Brauner 6 Stalkers, Furies, and Comforters: Roth’s Grave Comedy of Persecution Aurélie Guillain 7 “I told my wrath, my Roth did grow”: Anger in Operation ShylockAlex Calder 8 “My Kinsmen, My Precursors”: Philip Roth, Epic, Influence, and Bardic Proclivities Catherine Morley9 “I was the prosthesis”: Roth and Late Style Adam Zachary Newton 10 Performance, Affective Adaptation, Memory, Pretend Play, and Suicide in Philip Roth's The HumblingAmy Gelbart 11 Newark: The Shtetl Mark Shechner Afterword - Mark Shechner’s LegacyDavid Gooblar