{"title":"Introduction: Writers Who Write About Roth","authors":"Miriam Jaffe","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48098345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Ghost Readers\": The Roth Society after Roth","authors":"Matthew Shipe","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46096321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We are honored to have been asked to reflect for this special issue on our engagement as readers of Roth’s fiction for more than three decades. What follows is our very personal take on reading and writing about Roth as his work developed and then moved toward its completion. Focusing on the questions Roth’s fiction has moved us to ask over the years, we look back in the form of a conversation with an imaginary interlocutor on the aspects of Roth’s fiction that have interested us most. Like Roth, if perhaps immodestly, we are reading ourselves and others. In thinking about our individual responses to the following questions, we have been pleased to discover the ways in which our thinking has intersected and also the different directions from which we approach Roth’s fiction.
{"title":"Reflections on Reading Roth","authors":"Victoria Aarons, D. Shostak","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"We are honored to have been asked to reflect for this special issue on our engagement as readers of Roth’s fiction for more than three decades. What follows is our very personal take on reading and writing about Roth as his work developed and then moved toward its completion. Focusing on the questions Roth’s fiction has moved us to ask over the years, we look back in the form of a conversation with an imaginary interlocutor on the aspects of Roth’s fiction that have interested us most. Like Roth, if perhaps immodestly, we are reading ourselves and others. In thinking about our individual responses to the following questions, we have been pleased to discover the ways in which our thinking has intersected and also the different directions from which we approach Roth’s fiction.","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46158515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Recent articles about Philip Roth's selected biographer, Blake Bailey, have reignited a conversation about whether Roth should be culturally "canceled." In light of the newly reestablished debate about Roth's supposed sexism if not misogyny, this article argues that it is problematic to assume that all of Roth's female characters are sexist depictions. Through a close reading of The Dying Animal (2001), this article demonstrates that the novel's protagonist, David Kepesh, engages women who possess sexual agency. Specifically, one of his lovers, Consuela Castillo, takes control of their sexualized power dynamic. A close analysis of Consuela's control of their relationship redirects the conversation about Roth and sexism toward his characters who seek sexual agency. This article explains that Consuela displays sexual autonomy and then power as she freely pursues a relationship for her own gains, a reading which casts doubt on Roth's alleged sexism.
{"title":"Roth and Reputation versus Sex and Empowerment in The Dying Animal","authors":"Brittany Hirth","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent articles about Philip Roth's selected biographer, Blake Bailey, have reignited a conversation about whether Roth should be culturally \"canceled.\" In light of the newly reestablished debate about Roth's supposed sexism if not misogyny, this article argues that it is problematic to assume that all of Roth's female characters are sexist depictions. Through a close reading of The Dying Animal (2001), this article demonstrates that the novel's protagonist, David Kepesh, engages women who possess sexual agency. Specifically, one of his lovers, Consuela Castillo, takes control of their sexualized power dynamic. A close analysis of Consuela's control of their relationship redirects the conversation about Roth and sexism toward his characters who seek sexual agency. This article explains that Consuela displays sexual autonomy and then power as she freely pursues a relationship for her own gains, a reading which casts doubt on Roth's alleged sexism.","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42986118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Newark I Never Knew","authors":"Louis Gordon","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48515669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Professor of Roth in India","authors":"G. Neelakantan","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46242163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for Roth, Kafka, and the Other Europe in Spain","authors":"Martyna Bryla","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47113385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hauntologies of Fiction: Reading Roth at the End of History","authors":"Andy Connolly","doi":"10.1353/prs.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43442949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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