PHILIP ROTH

ENC 1141  INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE PROFESSOR FRANK MATHIAS

SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR & HIS WORKS :

BOOKS:

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Reference - PS21.D5)

Contemporary Literary Criticism (Reference - PN94.C6)

Use the library's Online Catalog - LINCC to search for books about Philip Roth. 
HINT:  Search for "Roth, Philip" as a subject keyword.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES:

Biography Resource Center (GaleNet) - Comprehensive, full-text, online biographical reference database covering the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the art.

Literature Resource Center (GaleNet) - Full-text resource providing access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

MaGill on Literature (Click on Academic Search Elite and scroll down to Magill) Synopsis and explanations of literary works.

WEBSITES:

Philip Roth Research Homepage - Derek Royal, North Georgia College & State University 

Philip Roth Panel 

LITERARY THEMES & TOPICS:    (Use these terms or derivations of these terms to as keywords and subject headings for searching databases and library catalogs.)

Jewish authors
Jewish fiction
Jewish literature
American Jewish life and cultural identity
The individual's search for identity
Interfaith relationships
Social class

      
BOOKS BY PHILIP ROTH:

Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories, Houghton (Boston),
1959, published as Goodbye, Columbus, Houghton, 1989, reprinted
under original title, New Modern Library (New York City), 1995.

Letting Go (novel), Random House (New York City), 1962.

When She Was Good (novel), Random House, 1967.

On the Air (short story), New American Library (New York City),
1969.

Portnoy's Complaint (novel), Random House, 1969, 25th-Anniversary
Edition, Vintage Books, 1994.

Our Gang (novel), Random House, 1971, published with a new
preface and revised notes by the author, Bantam (New York City),
1973.

The Breast (novel), Holt (New York City), 1972, revised edition,
Farrar, Straus (New York City), 1982.

The Great American Novel, Holt, 1973.

My Life as a Man (novel), Holt, 1974.

Reading Myself and Others (nonfiction), Farrar, Straus, 1975.

The Professor of Desire (novel), Farrar, Straus, 1977.

The Ghost Writer (novel; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1979.

A Philip Roth Reader, Farrar, Straus, 1980.

Zuckerman Unbound (novel; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1981.

The Anatomy Lesson (novel; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1983.

Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue (includes The Ghost
Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, and The Anatomy Lesson with epilogue
"The Prague Orgy"), Farrar, Straus, 1985, published in England as
The Prague Orgy, J. Cape (London), 1985.

The Counterlife (novel), Farrar, Straus, 1986.

(Author of foreword) A Fanatic Heart, New American Library, 1986.

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, Farrar, Straus, 1988.

Deception (novel), Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1990.

Patrimony: A True Story, Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Operation Shylock: A Confession, Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Sabbath's Theater (novel), Houghton, 1995.

American Pastoral (novel), Houghton, 1997.

I Married a Communist (novel), Houghton, 1998.

The Human Stain (novel), Houghton, 2000.

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