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Abstract: Released in the "understanding contemporary american literature" series from The University of South Carolina Press, Matthew Shipe's Understanding Philip Roth (2022) contextualizes Roth's career for a general audience. As the current president of the Philip Roth Society and one of the incoming executive co-editors of the Philip Roth Studies journal, Shipe is ideally placed to undertake this task. "By emphasizing the connections between his early and late work," Shipe writes in the opening chapter, "Understanding Philip Roth attempts to show how Roth's fiction evolved over the course of a half-century. Additionally, this volume sets Roth's work in the context of the charges of misogyny and of being a self-hating Jew ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What is left to say about philip roth' for all the immensity of roth's oeuvre, the even more substantial collection of papers he left behind, and his dogged dedication to self-analysis, what's most impressive is the sheer amount of Rothian scholarship. Philip Roth in Context knows it has a Herculean task to find new narratives, new readings, and new interventions for Roth's work. Underscoring this task is the fact that many of the authors in this collection have released Roth tomes of their own. In her introduction to Roth after Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination (2016), Aimee Pozorski (who authors the excellent "Trauma Theory" chapter in this collection) refers to the list of Philip Roth ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As we approached our final issue together, our tenth issue over the course of our five-year term as executive co-editors of Philip Roth Studies, we began to understand that nothing could be more fitting than a special issue on the archive. We thank Ira Nadel for his proposal to collect in these pages archival work accomplished with the help of Newark Public Library's Philip Roth Reading Room—a room that holds the volumes Roth collected and read during his lifetime. We also thank Rosemary Steinbaum and the Board of Trustees of the Newark Public Library for their support of this volume. This is a project, we hope, that will not only build on Roth's legacy, but possibly even contribute to our own legacy as editors of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This issue of philip roth studies, the last under the perspicacious editorial leadership of Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheurer, focuses on a single entity: the Philip Roth Personal Library at the Newark Public Library. This resource for scholarship, discovery, and enjoyment has become a beacon in Roth Studies, attracting students and scholars from around the world. The collection of Roth's books, with a panoply of supplementary materials ranging from manuscripts, letters, and annotated texts to scrapbooks, photographs, interview tapes, awards, and even furniture, is unparalleled. Items cover the author's life and writings from childhood through his post-writing career. The collection holds unexpected gems, from his ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The philip roth personal library welcomes scholars, students, and fans of Philip Roth, as well as the general public who may wander into its space, to learn about the writer and his work. Its contents offer a rare glimpse of his creative process, with research, books, and notes illuminating the moment when reading, memory, and imagination combust to make fiction. Whatever the subject of their inquiry, scholars and others who work there will discover many such moments of illumination.Roth's intention was certainly to preserve his library. Whether he appreciated it as a space to pull back the curtain on his writerly methods we don't know. But, as we have learned, there is a second and a third life for the Roth oeuvre ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The philip roth personal library at the newark public library preserves and displays the Newark-born author's collection of over 7,000 books, ephemera, memorabilia, and furniture. Together, these items offer an understanding of Roth's literary friendships, his reading and writing processes, and his personal surroundings. The collection also provides insight into works that influenced him, materials he purchased and used to research and write his own novels, as well as the books—largely nonfiction—that he read later in life. More than half of the books are shelved in the reading room, using Roth's own order. An additional 3,500 books are kept in an adjoining storage room. This "overflow" collection consists of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Behind every reader is a mystery: how they started, what spark ignited their booklust. In Philip Roth's case, the mystery is no mystery. Roth was voluble about his life as a reader: how it began, evolved, and even ended. We know from interviews, articles, and Roth's own memoirs about his debt to other writers (who served, in rare cases, as literary father-figures). Roth wore his influences proudly.The role of reading in Roth's life cannot be overstated. Perhaps every rebel secretly yearns for a cause, and Roth's was literature: reading, writing, teaching. Roth's commitment was total: he read for pleasure, for distraction, for inspiration. He read for research and to make sense of the world. He read for escape and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic.with a few books on the mantelpiece, among them […] Erik Erikson's Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History […] and some Paris Review interviews.It wasn't until earlier this year, after reading debra shostak's fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel (2020), that I understood why I am so compelled by the work of Philip Roth. Having endured a childhood troubled by my own absent father—a father who failed to live up to the American ideal of fatherhood by walking out of my life when I was eight years old—I connected strongly to the story Shostak uses to open her study: the story of a childhood friend ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Of the 7,000 volumes in philip roth's personal library (prpl), one book stands out because it contains the most of Roth's marginalia by far. This book, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, a 1948 yellow Schocken paperback, collects the stories that Kafka published in his lifetime: "The Judgment" (1912), "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "The Country Doctor" (1917), "In the Penal Colony" (1914), and "A Hunger Artist" (1922). Roth repeatedly revisited his copy, creating layers of notes over time, some in black or red felt tip, black or blue ballpoint, and pencil. I mention the penmanship of Roth's marginalia because I was initially affected by his sometimes indecipherable, human handwriting having graced the pages. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Pleasure pretty soon becomes hard work"Divided into six sections, "lolita x six" considers the connections between Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov along six axes, one for each edition of Lolita (1955) that Roth owned. Suggesting that Nabokov's influence on Roth goes beyond the single text, this essay argues that Lolita may have provided license for Roth's uncensored sex in Portnoy's Complaint (1969), although Roth began to question much earlier in his career whether art alone could vindicate immoral actions. While both authors attempted to distance themselves from their characters, the public would not allow such separation. Nevertheless, such literary qualities between them as the aesthetic of accumulation ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Among the books that philip roth read for research as he was laying the groundwork for Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), there is an in-depth study of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). A Jewish convert to Protestant Christianity and political radical noted for his irony, Heine had to cope with Prussian state censorship, self-censorship, and antisemitism for much of his life. Today, a plaque with some lines from his 1820 play Almansor—"Where they burn books / They will, in the end, burn human beings too" (qtd. in Prawer 73)—famously stands on the site of the May 1933 Nazi book burning in central Berlin, a haunting monument against all forms of censorship.Keeping this in mind, it is perhaps not surprising that Roth ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-28T00:00:00-05:00
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