

Beschreibung
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarsh...The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions in Philip Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his important novels but uncannily anticipated our American future. Divided into six main sections, this Handbook considers such topics: - The full range of Roth''s writing, from his novels and short stories to essays and life writing - Major interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives across literary studies, politics, gender studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism - Roth''s literary legacy across contemporary fiction, Jewish literature, the arts, and culture studies - Key contexts including American political movements since the 1950s, the American Jewish experience, and intertextual relationships Uniting scholars and artists who have built the field of Philip Roth studies from the ground up along with emergent scholars from around the world, this Handbook includes chapter summaries, study questions, and an author biography and timeline that includes key dates in Roth''s life and publication history. It also contains a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading as well as an overview of film and television adaptations.
Autorentext
Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA, where she also coordinates the Racial Justice Certificate. She is the author of AIDS-Trauma and Politics (2019), Falling After 9-11: Art and Literature in Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011). She is Co-executive Editor, with Maren Scheurer, of Philip Roth Studies, and is past President of the Philip Roth Society (2009-2015).
Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She has published on psychoanalytic aesthetics in contemporary media and the transformations of realism in late nineteenth-century literature, and she is co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth's Trans-Disciplinary Translations.
Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University*, USA)and Maren Scheurer(Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)*
Timeline
I. Roth Through the Genres
"By Now What You Are Is a Walking Text": Philip Roth's Editorial Contexts, Roles, and Imagination
Jack Knowles (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
II. Roth Across Disciplines
Roth and Religion: Nemesis, or Roth's Quarrel with God
Timothy Parrish (University of California, Davis, USA)
III. History and Politics
The Many Diasporas of Nathan Zuckerman
Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading, UK)
IV. New Directions in Roth Studies
The Counterlife: On Roth's Queers
RL Goldberg (Princeton University, USA)
V. Adaptations and Influences
Roth Exhibited: An Interview with Bryan Zanisnik
Bryan Zanisnik (Hunter College, USA; Practicing Artist in NYC)
VI. Shop Talk
The Philip Roth Personal Library in Newark: Genesis, Purpose, and Contents
Tim Crist (Newark Library, USA), Nadine Sergejeff (Newark Library, USA), and Rosemary Steinbaum (Newark Library, USA)
Appendix:
A Guide to Film and Television Adaptations of Roth's Fiction
Deborah Shostak (Wooster College, USA)
Index