Jerkin’ the gherkin: Philip Roth’s hands-on humor

Autores/as

  • Sam Coale Wheaton College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.5.9.117-120

Palabras clave:

Jewish literature, Sex in literature, Humor, American literature

Resumen

Sex, outrage, shock, and satiric humor have become Philip Roth's trademark, which this essay discusses in relation to ten of his novels, from Portnoy's Complaint (1969) to Nemesis
(2010).

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Citas

KAKUTANI, Michiko. The Dying Animal: A Man Adrift, Living on Sexual Memories. The New York Times, May 8, 2001. Available at

MAILER, Norman. Gender, Narcissism, Masturbation. The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. New York: Random House, 2003. p. 131-137.

ROTH, Philip. Portnoy’s Complaint. New York: Bantam, 1969/1970.

ROTH, Philip. The Counterlife. New York: Penguin, 1986.

ROTH, Philip. I Married a Communist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

ROTH, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

ROTH, Philip. The Dying Animal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

ROTH, Philip. Everyman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

ROTH, Philip. Exit Ghost. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

ROTH, Philip. Indignation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

ROTH, Philip. The Humbling. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

ROTH, Philip. Nemesis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010.

ZIMA, Peter V. The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory. London: Athlone, 1999.

Publicado

2011-10-30

Cómo citar

Coale, S. (2011). Jerkin’ the gherkin: Philip Roth’s hands-on humor. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 5(9), 117–120. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.5.9.117-120