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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48929-4 — Philip Roth in Context Edited by Maggie Mckinley Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48929-4 — Philip Roth in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Conrad, Joseph, , Albert, Elisa, Cooper, James Fenimore, Allen, Mary, American Pastoral (film), DeLillo, Don, , Anderson, Sherwood, , Derrida, Jacques, Anti-Defamation League, , Dos Passos, John, Appelfeld, Aharon, , , –, , , Dostoevsky, Fyodor, , , , , Dreiser, Theodore, , Apple, Sam, Dunham, Lena, Arendt, Hannah, , , Atwood, Margaret, Einstein, Albert, Auster, Paul, , Elegy, , , Ellison, Ralph, , , , , Babel, Isaac, Ellmann, Richard, Bailey, Blake, , Emerson, Ralph Waldo, –, Baraka, Amiri, Englander, Nathan, , Barnes, Julian, Erdrich, Louise, , Barth, John, , , – Barthelme, Donald, Farrell, James T., , Battle of Blood Island, The, Farrow, Mia, Bellow, Saul, , , , , , –, , Fast, Howard, –, , , –, , , Faulkner, William, , , , , Fiedler, Leslie, , Berkshires, The, – Flaubert, Henri, , , , , – Berman, Jeffrey, , Foer, Jonathan Safran, Berman, Shelley, Foucault, Michel, Bloom, Claire, , , , , , , , Frank, Anne. See The Ghost Writer , Franklin, Ruth, Bloom, Harold, , , Freud, Sigmund, , –, –, Bruce, Lenny, , –, Bukiet, Melvin, Gaddis, William, , Caruth, Cathy, – Ghost Writer, The (film), – Cather, Willa, , Golden, Harry, , Chabon, Michael, Goodbye, Columbus (film), , Chaim, Chofetz, Gornick, Vivian, , Cheever, John, –, Great Depression, Chekhov, Anton, , , Civil Rights Movement, , , , Halliday, Lisa, , Coetzee, J.M., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, , , Cold War, , , Hemingway, Ernest, , , , , – © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48929-4 — Philip Roth in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Hobhouse, Janet, , in American Pastoral, –, –, Holub, Miroslav, –, Howe, Irving, , , –, , , , , in Goodbye, Columbus, , , – , , in Indignation, Hrabal, Bohumil, in Nemesis, Human Stain, The (film), – in Portnoy’s Complaint, Humbling, The (film), – in The Counterlife, in The Plot Against America, , Indignation (film), – Riots of , , – Israel, , , , , , –, , , Weequahic, , , , , , , , , –, , –, , James, Henry, , , –, , –, , , O’Brien, Edna, , , , , , , , Oates, Joyce Carol, , , Jameson, Frederic, –, Ocean Hill-Brownsville strike, , Jones, Leroi. See Baraka, Amiri Orwell, George, –, Jong, Erica, , Ozick, Cynthia, , , , Joyce, James, , , Judt, Tony, Paley, Grace, , Pasternak, Boris, Kafka, Franz, , , , –, , –, Patriot Act, , , , Pierpont, Claudia Roth, –, , , , Kazin, Alfred, , , , , , –, , –, Kis, Danilo, , Klíma, Ivan, , , –, Plot Against America, The (miniseries), , Krauss, Nicole, , , , – Kundera, Milan, , , , , , , , Portnoy’s Complaint (film), , Prague, , , – Kureishi, Hanif, Pynchon, Thomas, –, Lacan, Jacques, Rabelais, Francois, Lawrence, D.H., Roth, Bess, , , , , Lee, Hermione, , Roth, Herman, , , –, , , Lelchuk, Alan, , , , Levi, Primo, , Roth, Philip Lewis, Sinclair, and antisemitism, accusations of, , , , Listen Up Philip, , , , , , – Lowell, Robert, and Eastern Europe. See Prague and Halcion, , , , , McCarthy, Mary, , , , and postmodernism, , , , McEwan, Ian, – McGurl, Mark, –, and psychoanalysis, , , –, –, Mailer, Norman, , – Malamud, Bernard, , , , , , , and September , – –, , and the Holocaust, , –, , Melville, Herman, –, , , –, , –, Merkin, Daphne, and Wikipedia, –, – Messud, Claire, and Zionism. See Israel Moore, Lorrie, as Eric Duncan, , , – Morrison, Toni, , , at Bucknell University, , , , , , New Deal, , at Iowa Writers’ Workshop, , , Newark as influence on Roth, , , , , at Princeton University, –, , at Rutgers University, © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48929-4 — Philip Roth in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index at University of Chicago, , –, , , Collected Stories , , Goodbye, Columbus, –, , , , , at University of Pennsylvania, –, , , –, , , , , at Yaddo writers’ colony, , , , –, –, , at Yeshiva University symposium, , , , , –, , , , Essays awards, , –, , , –, , “Forty-Five Years On,” back pain, “How Did You Come to Write That Book, bypass surgery, , Anyway?,” – childhood, , –, –, “I Have Fallen in Love with American death, , Names,” , , eightieth birthday celebration, , , “Imagining Jews,” in Et Cetera, , , “My Uchronia,” in London, “Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction, The,” , , interviews “A Conversation with Philip Roth” (), “Some New Jewish Stereotypes,” , , “After Eight Books” (), , “Interview on Zuckerman” (), “Writing About Jews,” , , , “It no longer feels like a great injustice that –, I have to die” (), , “Writing American Fiction,” – “Nemesis Will Be My Last Book” (), Memoirs Facts, The, , , , –, , “No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has –, , , , , , Plenty To Say” (), , –, , , , , , , “On Our Gang” (), , –, “On The Breast” (), Patrimony, , , , , –, , “Philip Roth’s Exact Intent” (), , , , , , , , , , “Should Sane Women Shy Away From , Him at Parties?” (), Novels “Talk with Philip Roth” (), American Pastoral, , , , , , , “The Art of Fiction No. ” (), , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , “The Ghosts of Roth” (), , , –, –, –, , , , “The NBA Winner Talks Back” (), Anatomy Lesson, The, , , , , , –, , , –, –, “To Newark, with Love” (), , –, –, , , “Writing and the Powers That Be” (), Breast, The, , –, –, , , , , , , “Zuckerman’s Alter Brain”(), Counterlife, The, , –, , , , , Paris Review, The, , , , , , , , , , with Le Monde (), , , –, , , –, with Svenska Dagbladet (), , , –, , , , , , –, –, , –, , , , , , with The London Sunday Times (), Deception, , , , , , , , marriages. See Williams, Margaret Martinson , , , , , , , , and Bloom, Claire , , retirement, , , – Dying Animal, The, , , , –, , Works: , , –, , , , , Collected Nonfiction Reading Myself and Others. See Roth, Philip: Everyman, , , , , , –, Essays; Interviews –, , , –, Shop Talk, , , Exit Ghost, , , , , , , , , Why Write?. See Roth, Philip:Essays; , , –, , , , Interviews –, , © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48929-4 — Philip Roth in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Index More Information Index Works: (cont.) “The Contest for Aaron Gold,” , Ghost Writer, The, , , , , , , “Whacking Off,” , –, , , –, , “I Always Wanted You to Admire My –, , , –, , , Fasting,” , , , –, “An Actor’s Life for Me,” Great American Novel, The, , , –, “Conversion of the Jews, The,” , , , , – Human Stain, The, xii, , , , , , “Defender of the Faith,” , , –, , –, , , , , , –, , , , , , , “Eli, the Fanatic,” –, , , , , , –, “His Mistress’s Voice,” –, , –, , , “Novotny’s Pain,” Humbling, The, , , –, , , “The Day It Snowed,” , , , , – Writers from the Other Europe series, , , , I Married a Communist, , , , –, , , , , , , , , , Indignation, , , , , –, , Sahl, Mort, , –, , , Salinger, J.D., , , Letting Go, , –, , , , Sartre, Jean-Paul, , –, , Schulz, Bruno, , , , , , My Life as a Man, –, , –, , Showalter, Elaine, –, , , , , , , Sidon, Karel, , , , , , , Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Nemesis, , , –, , –, Six Day War, –, –, , , , , , Smith, Zadie, , Operation Shylock, –, –, –, Solotaroff, Theodore, , –, , , , , –, , Spiegelman, Art, –, , , , , , , Sproul, Barbara, , , –, , , , , , Stern, Richard, Our Gang, , , , , – Styron, William, Plot Against America, The, , –, –, Susann, Jacqueline, , –, , , , , , Swift, Jonathan, –, , , , , – Portnoy’sComplaint, , , , , –, , Tolstoy, Leo, –, , , –, , , , , –, Trilling, Lionel, , –, , , –, , Turgenev, Ivan, –, –, , –, , Twain, Mark, , , , , , , , , , , , Prague Orgy, The, , , , , Ulinich, Anya, –, , , , Updike, John, , , , , , Professor of Desire, The, , , , –, Uris, Leon, , , , , , , , , , , , , Vietnam War, , , Sabbath’s Theater, –, , , , , , , , , , –, , Wallace, David Foster, , – Wharton, Edith, When She Was Good, , , –, , , Whitman, Walt, , , Williams, Margaret Martinson, , , , , Zuckerman Unbound, , , , –, , , , , , , Wolfe, Thomas, , Short Stories Woolf, Virginia, , “A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis,” World War II, , “Epstein,” , –, , , , Wylie, Philip, “Expect the Vandals,” , “Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Youngman, Henny, Avenue,” © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.
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