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A Portrait of the Artist as a Ghost: Joycean Echoes in Philip Roth’s Depiction of the Artist 作为幽灵的艺术家肖像:菲利普·罗斯对艺术家的描绘中的乔伊斯回声

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Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907258

Rachele Puddu

Abstract: This essay traces the origin of the ghost’s metaphor in Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer (1979) and argues that, under the influence of James Joyce, Roth molds his poetics through his most famous fictional double and his artistic journey. At the same time, he shapes an authorial figure that questions the act of writing in the twentieth century.

摘要:本文追溯了菲利普·罗斯《幽灵作家》(1979)中幽灵隐喻的起源，认为在詹姆斯·乔伊斯的影响下，罗斯通过他最著名的小说替身和他的艺术之旅塑造了他的诗学。与此同时，他塑造了一个质疑二十世纪写作行为的作家形象。

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The Odd Couple: Strindberg and Roth 奇怪的一对:斯特林堡和罗斯

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Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907257

Ira Nadel

Abstract: At first glance, it would seem that Philip Roth and August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist, novelist, social critic, and iconoclast, share little. However, a careful comparison of the two authors reveals numerous connections. Roth owned a series of Strindberg texts and commentaries and drew from his plays and life in a number of his works. This discussion not only highlights connections between the two authors but also explores why Roth felt a union, personally and thematically, with Strindberg. Whether it was women, marriage, Judaism, or sex, Strindberg and Roth united. Additionally, like Strindberg, Roth found monogamy difficult, while railing against female dishonesty. “When it comes to war, women have their own rules” (24), Strindberg wrote in The Father (1887). Roth never forgot it as he demonstrates that marriage is a battleground where love and hate coexist.

摘要:乍一看，菲利普·罗斯与瑞典剧作家、小说家、社会批评家、反传统主义者斯特林堡之间似乎没有什么共同之处。然而，仔细比较两位作者就会发现许多联系。罗斯拥有一系列斯特林堡的文本和评论，并在他的一些作品中借鉴了他的戏剧和生活。这一讨论不仅突出了两位作者之间的联系，而且还探讨了为什么罗斯在个人和主题上与斯特林堡有一种结合。无论是女性、婚姻、犹太教还是性，斯特林堡和罗斯的观点一致。此外，和斯特林堡一样，罗斯发现一夫一妻制很困难，同时也谴责女性的不诚实。斯特林堡在《父亲》(1887)中写道:“在战争中，女人有她们自己的规则。”罗斯从未忘记这一点，因为他证明了婚姻是爱与恨共存的战场。

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Athenian Logomachy in The Human Stain and Philip Roth’s Fight for the Word 《人类的污点》中的雅典语与菲利普·罗斯的《为世界而战》

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Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907259

Thomas Gustafson

Abstract: In The Human Stain (2000), Philip Roth develops a concern that animates his canon: the potentials and dangers of our most human trait—our capacity to fire back and forth words and letters. For Coleman Silk, in the world of Athena College—just as in ancient Athens—the battle of words in the forum becomes as dangerous as the battle of swords on the Homeric battlefield, and a mission of Roth in this novel, as in other works, is to turn logomachy into self-reflective art about the violence and corruption of the word in the American city-state.

摘要:在《人类的污点》(2000)一书中，菲利普·罗斯提出了一种关注，这一关注为他的经典注入了活力:我们最具人性的特质——我们来回发送单词和字母的能力——的潜力和危险。对于科尔曼·西尔克来说，在雅典娜学院的世界里——就像在古代雅典一样——论坛上的言语之战变得和荷马战场上的刀剑之战一样危险，而罗斯在这部小说中的使命，就像在其他作品中一样，是把符号修辞变成一种自我反思的艺术，反映美国城邦中言语的暴力和腐败。

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Annual Bibliography of Philip Roth Criticism and Resources—2022 菲利普罗斯批评和资源年度参考书目- 2022

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Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907268

Derek Parker Royal

Annual Bibliography of Philip Roth Criticism and Resources—2022 Brittany Hirth (bio) The following is a bibliography of philip roth-related texts published during 2022 including books, book chapters, journal articles, and a miscellaneous section that contains a sampling of notable magazine articles. Individual essays included in books not solely centered on Roth are grouped in “Book Chapters” and are cross-listed according to MLA style. Digital book editions, such as those designed for Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook readers, are not included in this listing, but they can be easily accessed online. Brittany Hirth Brittany Hirth, PhD, is an assistant professor of English at Florida Gateway College, where she teaches composition and American literature. She has published articles on Jewish American literature, war representation, and Philip Roth. BOOKS Bloom, James D. Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict. Lexington Books, 2022. Google Scholar Samarini, Francesco. Philip Roth e l’Italia: Storia di un amore incostante. Longo Editore, 2022. Google Scholar Shipe, Matthew A. Understanding Philip Roth. U of South Carolina P, 2022. Google Scholar BOOK CHAPTERS Blouin, Michael J. “The Imperial Presidents of American Literature.” The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the US Political Imagination, edited by Michael J. Blouin, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 159–83. Google Scholar Boxall, Peter. “Neoliberalism.” The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics, edited by Christos Hadjiyiannis and Rachel Potter, Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 307–22. Google Scholar Effe, Alexandra, and Alison Gibbons. “A Cognitive Perspective on Autofictional Writing, Texts, and Reading.” The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms, edited by Alexandra Effe and Hannie Lawlor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 61–81. Google Scholar Gelber, Mark H. “Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective.” The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, edited by Mark H. Gelber, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 89–112. Google Scholar Goodman, Brian K. “American Jewish Writers and the Eastern Bloc: The Dissident Generation.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, edited by Greg Barnhisel, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 113–30. Google Scholar Hartung, Heike. “Illness Memoirs, Ageing Masculinities and Care: The ‘Son’s Book of the Father.’” Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narratives, edited by Heike Hartung, Rüdiger Kunow, and Matthew Sweney, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 179–96. Google Scholar Heister, Iven L. “‘No New Newark’: Rewriting Place through the Failed Form of Family Romance in Philip Roth’s The Anatomy Lesson.” Rethinking Place through Literary Form, edited by Rupsa Banerjee and Nathaniel Cadle, Springer International, 2022, pp. 211–26. Google Scholar Holler, Barbara. “The Classicist as a Literary Character in Contemporary Literature: The Depiction of a Discipline.” Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity

菲利普罗斯批评和资源的年度参考书目- 2022年布列塔尼Hirth(生物)以下是菲利普罗斯相关文本的参考书目出版在2022年，包括书籍，书籍章节，期刊文章，和杂项部分，其中包含著名的杂志文章的抽样。个别文章包括在书中不完全集中于罗斯被分组在“书章节”，并根据MLA风格交叉列出。电子书版本，如为亚马逊的Kindle和巴诺的Nook阅读器设计的版本，不包括在这个列表中，但它们可以很容易地在网上找到。布列塔尼·赫斯博士是佛罗里达盖特学院的英语助理教授，在那里她教授作文和美国文学。她发表过关于美国犹太文学、战争表现和菲利普·罗斯的文章。詹姆斯·d·罗斯的《战争:冲突中的职业生涯》。列克星敦出版社，2022年。谷歌学者萨马利尼，弗朗西斯科。菲利普·罗斯《意大利》:故事变得更加无常。Longo Editore, 2022。谷歌学者希普，马修A.理解菲利普罗斯。南卡罗来纳大学，2022年。谷歌学者图书章节Blouin, Michael J.“美国文学的帝王总统”。《美国小说的总统:塑造美国的政治想象》，迈克尔·j·布鲁因主编，布卢姆斯伯里出版社，2022年版，第159-83页。Google Scholar Boxall, Peter。“新自由主义”。《剑桥20世纪文学与政治指南》，克里斯托斯·哈吉扬尼斯和雷切尔·波特编辑，剑桥大学出版社，2022年，第307-22页。谷歌学者艾菲、亚历山德拉和艾莉森·吉本斯。“自传体小说写作、文本和阅读的认知视角”《自传体小说:方法、启示、形式》，亚历山德拉·埃菲和汉妮·劳勒主编，帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社，2022年版，第61-81页。谷歌学者Gelber, Mark H.，“Ruth kl格，犹太教和犹太复国主义:一个美国人的观点。”《露丝·克莱格的遗产与奥斯维辛世纪的终结》，马克·h·盖尔伯主编，德格鲁伊特出版社，2022年版，第89-112页。谷歌学者古德曼，布莱恩K.《美国犹太作家和东方集团:持不同政见者的一代》《布卢姆茨伯里冷战文学文化手册》，格雷格·巴恩希尔编辑，布卢姆茨伯里，2022年，第113-30页。谷歌学者Hartung, Heike。《疾病回忆录、老年男子气概和关怀:父亲的儿子之书》。老年男性，阿尔茨海默氏症和痴呆症的叙述，由Heike Hartung, rdiger Kunow和Matthew Sweney编辑，Bloomsbury出版社，2022年，第179-96页。“没有新纽瓦克”:通过菲利普·罗斯的《解剖课》中失败的家庭浪漫形式重写地方。”通过文学形式重新思考地方，由鲁萨·班纳吉和纳撒尼尔·卡德尔编辑，斯普林格国际出版社，2022年，第211-26页。谷歌学者霍勒，芭芭拉。当代文学中的古典主义文学角色:一门学科的描绘《古典争议:21世纪希腊罗马古代的接受》，由Kim Beerden和Timo Epping编辑，Sidestone, 2022年，第139-53页。谷歌学者容克，克拉拉。《在丹麦教菲利普·罗斯:很复杂》《欧洲课堂中的当代美国小说:教学与文本》，劳伦斯·w·马泽诺、苏·诺顿主编，施普林格国际出版社，2022年版，第185-200页。谷歌学者米塞利，芭芭拉。逃离语料库:菲利普·罗斯《解剖课》中写作的痛苦与疾病《痛苦与快乐的诗学与诠释学》，布泰娜·马豪尔和哈宁·巴鲁米主编，剑桥学者出版社，2022年版，第55-62页。谷歌学者扎普拉娜，埃斯特。“通过情感让人不安的男性气质:菲利普·罗斯的《普通人和老年的克星》。”《后人类主义和男人问题:超越人类中心主义的男性气质》，Ulf Mellström和鲍勃·皮斯主编，劳特利奇出版社，2022年版，第56-70页。Alice Balenstrino。“生活能教给我们的最糟糕的一课”:美国牧歌式的新自由主义者《北美国际研究》，vol. 23, 2022, pp. 83-105。谷歌学者Banimansoor, Abdullah Jassim muhammad和张龙海。菲利普·罗斯《人性的污点》中资本主义的石化影响《社会科学》，第12卷，第12期。2, 2022, pp. 119-28。谷歌学者布鲁姆，凯瑟琳·鲁斯。“被操纵的罗斯:菲利普·罗斯的《夏洛克行动》中犹太男性的身体形象和对犹太复国主义身份的探索。”《菲利普·罗斯研究》，第18卷，第2期。2, 2022, pp. 3-17。谷歌学者Bryla, Martyna。“‘冷战想象力的盛宴’:约翰·厄普代克笔下的东欧……

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A Single Life 单身生活

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Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907267

John J. Fitzgerald

A Single Life John J. Fitzgerald (bio) Daniel Ross Goodman. A Single Life: A Novel. KTAV Publishing House, 2020. 289 pp. $24.95 hardback. Published during daniel ross goodman’s prolific summer of 2020, a Single Life: A Novel, one of his first two books (along with Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema [Hamilton, 2020]) is as eclectic as the writer himself. A rabbi with a PhD in Jewish theology, Goodman also has completed graduate-level coursework in English and Comparative Literature and engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue in other published works. A Single Life displays a compelling and evocative fluency in these areas, as well as in the vexed matters of dating and race relations in our contemporary world. In addition, the lead character’s struggle with Jewish identity may particularly resonate with readers of Philip Roth. The protagonist of A Single Life is Eli Newman, whom we are introduced to in Part I as a yeshiva student in Baltimore with an unenviable romantic résumé; he hasn’t made it to a third date in eight years. Proclaiming to his roommate Yoni that he has resigned himself to a life of holy celibacy like the rabbinic sage Ben Azzai and many Christians, Eli initially presents as self-absorbed, whiny, and neurotic (and perhaps inspired by the identically named central figure in Roth’s short story “Eli, the Fanatic” [1959]). While his anxiousness perdures, he becomes a more familiar and sympathetic figure as the novel marches on and we are gradually introduced to his background. (Even in the first chapter, there are suggestions that his “appearance” and love of secular literature aren’t facilitating his dates with religious Jewish girls.) Yoni invites Eli to go out with his sister Rena, who shares Eli’s interests in literature and film but not his devout religious practice, which quickly sinks a promising start. Part II fast-forwards to Eli’s life in his early thirties as a Talmud teacher at a Modern Orthodox high school in Connecticut. Here some readers will recall Roth’s representations of romance in academic settings, as we find Eli visually and intellectually smitten with English teacher Emma Yates, who appears to feel the same way about him. While they only glance at each other from afar due to Eli’s reticence to engage publicly with a non-Jewish woman, Emma sends him a Facebook friend request and they begin exchanging messages and background stories. At this point, it’s revealed [End Page 112] that Eli is half Black and Emma (who is white) was raised Catholic but presently rejects all religion. The third and final part of A Single Life begins with a flashback to Eli’s time as a twelve-year-old in Houston with his fellow book-loving classmate Jessica David. Like Eli, Jessica is Jewish and at least partially Black, although their hand-holding mutual crush is abruptly severed by Eli’s father’s decision to relocate to Baltimore. Part III then returns to Eli’s exclusively virtual relationship with Emma, whi

约翰·j·菲茨杰拉德(传记)丹尼尔·罗斯·古德曼。《单身生活:一部小说》。KTAV出版社，2020。289页，精装本24.95美元。在丹尼尔·罗斯·古德曼多产的2020年夏天出版的《单身生活:一部小说》，是他的前两本书之一(另外两本是《彩虹之上的某个地方:美国电影中的奇迹与宗教》[汉密尔顿，2020])，和作者本人一样兼收并蓄。古德曼是一位拥有犹太神学博士学位的拉比，还完成了研究生水平的英语和比较文学课程，并在其他出版作品中参与了犹太-基督教对话。《单身生活》在这些方面，以及在我们当代世界中令人烦恼的约会和种族关系问题上，都表现得令人信服和令人回味。此外，主人公与犹太人身份的斗争可能会引起菲利普·罗斯的读者的共鸣。《单身生活》的主角是伊莱·纽曼(Eli Newman)，我们在第一部分中介绍过他，他是巴尔的摩的一名犹太学生，有着令人羡慕的浪漫主义人格;他已经八年没有第三次约会了。伊莱向他的室友尤尼宣布，他已经像拉比圣人本·阿扎伊(Ben Azzai)和许多基督徒一样，放弃了神圣的独身生活，他最初表现得只顾自己、爱抱怨、神经质(也许是受到罗斯短篇小说《狂热者伊莱》(1959)中同名中心人物的启发)。虽然他的焦虑持续着，但随着小说的发展，他成为了一个更加熟悉和同情的人物，我们逐渐了解了他的背景。(甚至在第一章中，就有人暗示他的“外表”和对世俗文学的热爱并没有促进他与虔诚的犹太女孩的约会。)尤尼邀请伊莱和他的妹妹瑞娜一起出去玩，她和伊莱一样对文学和电影感兴趣，但对他虔诚的宗教信仰却不太感兴趣，这很快就毁掉了一个充满希望的开端。第二部分快进到伊莱三十出头的生活，他是康涅狄格州一所现代东正教高中的犹太法典老师。在这里，一些读者会想起罗斯在学术背景下的浪漫表现，因为我们发现伊莱在视觉上和智力上都被英语老师艾玛·耶茨迷住了，她似乎对他也有同样的感觉。由于伊莱不愿公开与非犹太女性交往，他们只能隔着很远的距离看对方一眼，但艾玛向他发送了Facebook好友请求，他们开始交换信息和背景故事。在这一点上，它揭示了伊莱有一半黑人血统，而艾玛(白人)是天主教徒，但目前拒绝所有宗教。《单身生活》的第三部分，也是最后一部分，以闪回12岁的伊莱和他爱读书的同学杰西卡·大卫在休斯顿的时光开始。和伊莱一样，杰西卡也是犹太人，至少有一部分是黑人，尽管伊莱的父亲决定搬到巴尔的摩，他们的相互迷恋突然中断了。然后，第三部分回到伊莱与艾玛的专属虚拟关系，这很快就发展到视频聊天。尽管如此，无论是在现实生活中，还是在幻想中的互动中，他总是担心他们的宗教、种族和其他差异是否会构成不可逾越的障碍。(读者可能会想起《反生活》[1986]中犹太裔基督徒夫妇内森和玛丽亚所面临的类似困境。)瑞娜和杰西卡也一直萦绕在他的脑海中，古德曼巧妙地给读者制造了悬念，直到最后，一直优柔寡断的伊莱会和谁在一起——如果有的话。当然，《单身生活》本质上是一部犹太小说。伊莱和他的信徒们用希伯来语、意第绪语和阿拉姆语来表达他们的思想和相互交谈，这提供了一种生动的文化感，而不会让非犹太读者感到困惑。(作者提供了大量的脚注，将这些术语翻译成英文。)特别是，这本书是彻底的精神和字母塔木德;伊莱经常引用《塔木德》本身或其他宗教权威，长期与自己就如何正确对待女性进行斗争。但《单身生活》也展示了他对不同宗教的敏锐。例如，伊莱认为没有孩子的人……

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The Literary Mafia 文学黑手党

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907263

James D. Bloom

The Literary Mafia James D. Bloom (bio) Josh Lambert. The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature. Yale UP, 2022. 272 pp. $35.00 hardback. If you’re reading philip roth studies, you’ll need to read the literary Mafia. But if you’re expecting a story about the mafia—about offers you can’t refuse or about pole dancers at the Soprano family’s Bada Bing club—fuhgeddaboudit. Nathan Zuckerman, who considered hiring Al Capone and a Meyer Lansky henchman to do his dirty work, and Philip Roth, who worked for Newark mob boss Longy Zwillman as a schoolboy, might have been disappointed at this bait-and-switch tease (Anatomy 67; Zuckerman 110; Facts 41). In his introduction to The Literary Mafia, author Josh Lambert has, to his credit, made a point of distancing himself from what’s probably a publisher-imposed title, conceding that “it may seem strange that this book takes its title from a myth” about “a concentration of Jewish literary power,” which Lambert “deems false and even pernicious.” In his introduction, Lambert identifies the most influential culprits in promoting this myth: Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, and “mother-tongue” defender Katherine Anne Porter (1), along with two disgruntled Jewish writers, Meyer Levin (4) and Richard Kostelanetz (4–5). Having documented this myth, its origins during the Cold War years, and the “homophilous logic” underpinning the myth (24, 59), Lambert surveys the gate-keepers who constituted this “imaginary [. . .] so-called Jewish literary mafia” (166, 168). Lambert’s meticulous account of the careers of these gatekeepers decisively discredits this myth. At once weaving and casting a wide net, Lambert explains the influence of some marquee name influencers—Alfred Knopf, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg, Lionel Trilling—and their relationships with the supporting players whom they depended on, sponsored, or clashed with. In introducing this large cast, Lambert mentions in passing or offers thumbnail sketches of Knopf editor Harold Strauss and Viking editor Pascal Coivici, Commentary editor Marion Magid, American Review founder Ted Solotaroff who “owed his career to Roth” (59). Lambert also thoroughly sketches the career narratives of promising upstarts like novelists Ann Birstein who lampooned Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), Our Gang (1971), and The Breast (1972) in a [End Page 92] single sentence (116); Sam Astrachan, whom Lambert makes sound like a wannabe Faulkner (71); and Ivan Gold. In Portnoy’s Complaint, Lambert reports, Roth replayed a joke about a Jewish GI’s Japanese bride featured in Gold’s 1963 story “Taub East.” Giving Roth his due, Lambert also argues that “Taub East” “reads like a rewriting of Philip Roth’s ‘Defender of the Faith’” (Portnoy 189; Lambert 88, 87). The range, analytic acumen, and archival thoroughness of The Literary Mafia as a chronicle of the literary marketplace in which Roth launched his career makes it a must-read for Roth devotees. Despite Lambert’s learned and enthusia

文学黑手党詹姆斯·d·布鲁姆(传记)乔什·兰伯特。文学黑手党:犹太人、出版和战后美国文学。耶鲁大学，2022年。272页，精装本35.00美元。如果你在读菲利普罗斯的研究，你需要读一下文学黑手党。但如果你期待的是关于黑手党的故事——关于你无法拒绝的邀约，或者关于黑道家族(Soprano)巴达宾俱乐部(Bada Bing)钢管舞演员的故事——那就别指望了。内森·扎克曼(Nathan Zuckerman)曾考虑雇佣阿尔·卡彭(Al Capone)和迈耶·兰斯基(Meyer Lansky)的亲信为他做肮脏的工作，菲利普·罗斯(Philip Roth)曾在学生时代为纽瓦克黑帮老大朗吉·兹威尔曼(Longy Zwillman)工作，他们可能会对这种诱饵和交换的戏弄感到失望。Zuckerman 110;事实41)。作者乔什·兰伯特(Josh Lambert)在《文学黑手党》(The Literary Mafia)的序言中，值得赞扬的是，他强调了自己与可能是出版商强加给他的书名保持距离，承认“这本书的书名来自一个神话，这似乎很奇怪”，这个神话是关于“犹太文学力量的集中”，兰伯特“认为这是错误的，甚至是有害的”。在他的引言中，兰伯特指出了推动这一神话的最具影响力的罪魁祸首:杜鲁门·卡波特、杰克·凯鲁亚克和“母语”捍卫者凯瑟琳·安妮·波特(1)，以及两个心怀不满的犹太作家，迈耶·莱文(4)和理查德·科斯特拉内茨(4 - 5)。兰伯特记录了这个神话，它在冷战时期的起源，以及支撑这个神话的“同源逻辑”(24,59)，他调查了构成这个“虚构的……所谓犹太文学黑手党”的守门人(166,168)。兰伯特对这些看门人职业生涯细致入微的描述，果断地推翻了这个神话。兰伯特立刻编织并撒下了一张大网，他解释了一些名人的影响——阿尔弗雷德·克诺夫、索尔·贝娄、艾伦·金斯伯格、莱昂内尔·特里林——以及他们与他们依赖、赞助或与之发生冲突的配角的关系。在介绍这个庞大的演员阵容时，兰伯特顺便提到或提供了Knopf编辑Harold Strauss和Viking编辑Pascal Coivici的缩略草图，评论编辑Marion Magid，《美国评论》创始人Ted Solotaroff，他“把自己的事业归功于罗斯”(59)。兰伯特还详尽地描绘了一些有前途的新进人物的职业生涯，比如小说家安·伯斯坦，她用一句话(116页)讽刺了波特诺伊的《抱怨》(1969年)、我们的帮派(1971年)和《乳房》(1972年);萨姆·阿斯特拉坎(Sam Astrachan)，兰伯特把他描绘得像福克纳(71岁);还有伊万·戈尔德。兰伯特说，在波特诺伊的《抱怨》一书中，罗斯重播了戈尔德1963年的小说《陶布东方》中一个关于犹太大兵的日本新娘的笑话。兰伯特也给予罗斯应有的评价，他认为《托布·东》“读起来像是菲利普·罗斯(Philip Roth)的《信仰的捍卫者》(Defender of the Faith)的重写”(Portnoy 189;兰伯特88,87)。《文学黑手党》作为一部文学市场的编年史，其范围之广、分析之敏锐、档案之详尽，使其成为罗斯爱好者的必读之作。罗斯正是在这个文学市场中开始了他的职业生涯。尽管兰伯特在这种环境中学识渊博，热情高涨，但罗斯迷们可能会对兰伯特关于战后出版业中的犹太女性的那一章感到失望，那一章几乎没有提到马克辛·格罗夫斯基(Maxine Groffsky)。格罗夫斯基是罗斯1959年的《再见，哥伦布》(Goodbye Columbus)中布伦达·帕蒂姆金(Brenda Patimkin)的原型(根据所有关于这个问题的学术研究)。格罗夫斯基在1958年《巴黎评论》(Paris Review)出版《犹太人的皈依》(The Conversion of The Jews)时，担任乔治·普林顿(George Plimpton)的御用编辑，随后成立了一家以他名字命名的百老汇文学机构。格罗夫斯基的私生活、她的风流韵事和她的婚姻也在裙带关系盛行、性饱和的知识分子商业环境的中心上演，正是这种环境使罗斯成为明星，也激发了兰伯特揭穿的黑手党神话。虽然兰伯特从来没有提出过这种以罗斯为导向的问题，但他对战后文学文化的深入研究，尖锐地提出了罗斯的读者和其他研究冷战时期美国文学的学生可能会遇到的问题。兰伯特所描述的犹太裔美国人的“文学解放”和“美国文学和文化的重大变革”(8,15)与《退伍军人权利法案》对艺术更广泛的平等主义重新定位的影响，以及新批评形式主义对文学研究的影响，以及对罗斯同时代人的智力和艺术成长的影响，如Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion……

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Roth’s Wars 罗斯的战争

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907264

Stuart S. Miller

Roth’s Wars Stuart S. Miller (bio) James D. Bloom. Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict. Lexington, 2022. 173 pp. $95.00 hardback. James d. bloom introduces his new book with a chapter entitled “study War: An Overview.” Here he establishes Roth’s interest in war and compares his writing about the subject with that of other novelists (e.g., Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. D. Salinger). Bloom demonstrates Roth’s preoccupation with war, which goes beyond the battlefield and includes his description of children who make model war planes, adults who become bombers, or soldiers who may or, as in his own case or that of the Swede or Bucky Cantor, may not, experience actual combat. The subtitle to Bloom’s book reveals, however, that he is interested in much more than how Philip Roth writes with World War II, the Holocaust, Korea, and Vietnam in the background. The messiness of war and its consequences translated for Roth into the messiness of life and is expressed in conflicts of all types that imbue Roth’s literary imagination. Here I will attempt to convey a sense of what Bloom characterizes as “conflict” and where he sees its various manifestations emerge in Roth’s writings. Special attention will be given to Bloom’s novel contention that some of Roth’s struggles can be compared to those of the ancient Jewish historian Josephus. Bloom devotes the first half of his book (through chapter 4) to issues most directly related to war in Roth’s works. In Chapter 2, “Rescue, Refuge, Escape,” Bloom mines Roth’s oeuvre for examples of the author’s preoccupation with these themes. For example, The Ghost Writer (1979) has Anne Frank and even Kafka posthumously resurface after the war, when refugees would also find their way to Weequahic and from there flee to the suburbs. In “Eli, the Fanatic” (1959), Hasidim hoping to find refuge in the land of the free by settling in goyish Woodenton reexperience victimization and hatred, this time emanating from their very own people, who did not know war firsthand and are living comfortably among non-Jews. Those who attempt to “rescue” others from the ravages of war or subsequent conflicts include not only the transformed Eli, the Fanatic, but also Herman Roth. In The Plot Against America (2004), Herman attempts to save Seldon and, initially, his mom. Likewise, the Swede, in American Pastoral (1997), searches for his daughter Merry in the hope [End Page 97] of rescuing her from the war she has brought home to her country, her hometown, and her family. Roth seems to be saying that we cannot escape the conflicts surrounding us. In Chapter 3, “Don’t Count the Dead,” Bloom invokes Bob Dylan’s 1963 stinging “With God on Our Side,” which includes the lyric, “For you don’t count the dead when God’s on your side.” Bloom insists that Roth was haunted by death and in a sense his “entire career was an antidote to this heartless reassurance” (65). Soldiers face disaster, casualties mount, and devastation is the result. Paraphrasing Dylan, Bloom sees R

罗斯的战争斯图尔特·s·米勒(传记)詹姆斯·d·布鲁姆。罗斯的战争:冲突中的职业生涯。2022年列克星敦。173页，精装本95.00美元。詹姆斯·d·布鲁姆(James d. bloom)用题为“研究战争:概述”的章节介绍了他的新书。在这里，他确立了罗斯对战争的兴趣，并将他的作品与其他小说家(如费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基、j·d·塞林格)的作品进行了比较。布鲁姆展示了罗斯对战争的关注，这种关注超越了战场，他还描述了制作战机模型的孩子、成为轰炸机的成年人，以及可能经历实战的士兵，就像他自己、瑞典人或巴基·康托尔(Bucky Cantor)那样。然而，布鲁姆这本书的副标题表明，他感兴趣的远不止菲利普·罗斯如何以第二次世界大战、大屠杀、朝鲜和越南为背景进行写作。对罗斯来说，战争的混乱及其后果转化为生活的混乱，并在各种冲突中表达出来，这些冲突充满了罗斯的文学想象力。在这里，我将试图传达布鲁姆所描述的“冲突”，以及他在罗斯的作品中看到的各种表现形式。我们将特别关注布鲁姆的小说论点，即罗斯的一些斗争可以与古代犹太历史学家约瑟夫斯的斗争相提并论。布鲁姆在书的前半部分(直到第四章)讨论了罗斯作品中与战争最直接相关的问题。在第二章“营救、避难、逃离”中，布鲁姆挖掘了罗斯的全部作品，寻找作者对这些主题的关注。例如，《幽灵作家》(1979)让安妮·弗兰克甚至卡夫卡在战争结束后重新出现，当时难民们也会找到通往Weequahic的路，并从那里逃到郊区。在《狂热者伊莱》(Eli, the Fanatic, 1959)中，哈西德派希望通过在非犹太人的伍顿定居，在自由的土地上找到庇护，重新体验受害者和仇恨，这一次来自他们自己的人民，他们没有亲身经历过战争，在非犹太人中生活得很舒服。那些试图从战争或随后的冲突中“拯救”他人的人不仅包括转变后的狂热者伊莱，还包括赫尔曼·罗斯。在《反美阴谋》(2004)中，赫尔曼试图拯救塞尔登，起初是他的母亲。同样，在《美国牧歌》(1997)中，瑞典人寻找他的女儿梅丽，希望把她从战争中救出来，因为她把她带回了自己的国家、家乡和家人。罗斯似乎在说，我们无法逃避周围的冲突。在第三章“别数死人”中，布鲁姆引用了鲍勃·迪伦1963年的那首刺人的歌曲《上帝在我们这边》，其中的歌词是:“当上帝在你这边时，你不要数死人。”布鲁姆坚持认为罗斯被死亡所困扰，从某种意义上说，他的“整个职业生涯都是对这种无情安慰的解药”(65)。士兵们面临灾难，伤亡人数增加，结果是满目疮痍。布鲁姆转述了迪伦的话，认为罗斯的《美国三部曲》在努力解决这样一个问题:“当我们意识到‘上帝并不站在我们一边’，我们终于停下来开始‘数死人’时，会发生什么?”’”(67)。布鲁姆或许还可以引用迪伦尖刻的结尾处歌词:“如果上帝站在我们这边，他将结束下一场战争。”就像早期的迪伦一样，罗斯在后肯尼迪时代与爱国主义和美国例外论作斗争。布鲁姆在这一点上特别有效。在第四章“无尽的战争(未被束缚的潘多拉或普罗米修斯的女儿)”中，布鲁姆认为，《美国牧歌》和琼·迪迪安的《民主》(1984)属于一个尚未命名的亚类型，这个亚类型是由马丁·路德·金的断言定义的，即越南属于毒害美国灵魂的“无休止的战争”。这一章的末尾，罗斯与乔治·奥威尔、让-保罗·萨特和迪迪安等作家一起，试图回答“为什么写作?”在罗斯的例子中，奥威尔的“历史冲动”(Bloom 79)可能是部分原因，但最终，布鲁姆断言，“罗斯开始与‘陈词滥调’作斗争……

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When She Was Good and the Eclipse of the Virtuous Heroine: A Revaluation 《当她善良的时候》和《贤惠女主人公的消逝:重估》

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2023.a907261

Julia Prewitt Brown

Abstract: Beginning with a brief discussion of the lack of serious revaluations of Roth’s work amidst the scandal surrounding Roth’s biographer Blake Bailey, this essay considers the overlooked importance of Roth’s early satiric novel, When She Was Good (1967). The novel may be said to mark Roth’s lasting challenge to the Anglo-American tradition of the heroine distinguished above all by her virtuous character. Roth implicitly alludes to earlier saintly heroines in his portrait of Lucy Nelson, who, as she comes of age, ultimately embodies the apotheosis of what Harold Bloom has called “the heroine of the Protestant will.” Roth’s representation of the American middle class Protestant value system, with its imperial conviction of its own righteousness and its blind sentimentalization of the women who carried its banner, freed Roth to write his next novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969). It was as if exorcising the demonically virtuous shiksa Lucy Nelson was necessary before he could speak in his own voice. In When She Was Good , Roth explores a psychology of personal grievance that resonates eerily on both sides of the political spectrum today.

摘要:本文首先简要讨论了罗斯的传记作者布莱克·贝利(Blake Bailey)的丑闻中缺乏对罗斯作品的严肃重新评价，然后考虑了罗斯早期讽刺小说《当她很好》(1967)被忽视的重要性。这部小说可以说是罗斯对英美女主人公传统的持久挑战，这种传统最重要的是她的美德。罗斯在露西·纳尔逊(Lucy Nelson)的肖像中含蓄地暗示了早期圣洁的女英雄，随着露西·纳尔逊的成年，她最终体现了哈罗德·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)所说的“新教意志的女英雄”的典范。罗斯对美国中产阶级新教价值体系的表现，以及对自身正义的帝国主义信念，以及对打着这种旗帜的女性的盲目感伤，使罗斯得以创作他的下一部小说《波特诺伊的抱怨》(1969)。就好像在他能够用自己的声音说话之前，必须先驱除恶魔般的善良的shiksa Lucy Nelson。在《当她是好人》一书中，罗斯探讨了一种个人不满的心理，这种心理在当今政治光谱的双方都引起了奇怪的共鸣。

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Eating Across Borders: Dietary Politics in "Goodbye, Columbus" and Absurdistan 跨国界饮食：《再见，哥伦布》和《荒诞派》中的饮食政治

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2022.0019

Madeline McCluskey

Abstract:This paper compares the dietary politics of Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus" (1959) and Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan (2006). "Goodbye, Columbus" shows characters who can never fully eat without worry, whose dietary behavior marks the rigidity of their lives and the predetermined trajectory of their class identity The cultural anxieties that underpin Roth's characters' diets are noticeably absent from Shteyngart's novel, yet in each story characters' appetites reveal nuanced class and racial implications of their respective positions. Misha, through his excessive alimentary and cultural consumption, can transgress social and geographic borders with ease; for Roth's characters, dietary anxiety exposes a fixed social class with limited geographic mobility By juxtaposing these two works, we can see how diet becomes a way for Roth's characters to perform an upper-middle class whiteness, but it also tethers each character to the position into which they were born. In contrast, Shteyngart's Misha rejects this type of performative dietetics while, in fact, using food to perform his own ill-conceived cultural ideals.

摘要：本文比较了菲利普·罗斯（Philip Roth）的《再见，哥伦布》（Goodbye，Columbus）（1959年）和加里·施特恩加特（Gary Shteyngart）的《荒诞派》（2006年）的饮食政治。《再见，哥伦布》展现了那些永远无法毫无顾虑地吃饱饭的人物，他们的饮食行为标志着他们生活的僵化和阶级身份的预定轨迹。支撑罗斯人物饮食的文化焦虑在施特恩加特的小说中明显缺失，然而，在每个故事中，人物的欲望都揭示了他们各自立场的微妙阶级和种族含义。米沙通过过度的饮食和文化消费，可以轻松地跨越社会和地理边界；对于罗斯笔下的角色来说，饮食焦虑暴露了一个地理流动性有限的固定社会阶层。通过将这两部作品并置，我们可以看到饮食如何成为罗斯笔下角色表现中上层白人的一种方式，但它也将每个角色与他们出生的位置联系在一起。相比之下，Shteyngart的《米沙》拒绝这种表演性营养学，而事实上，他用食物来实现自己构思不周的文化理想。

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Reverse Biography: The Philip Roth We Still Don't Know by Jacques Berlinerblau 反向传记：我们仍然不知道的菲利普·罗斯

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Philip Roth Studies

Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2022.0013

Eric Vanderwall

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