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Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth »

Authors: Mark Shechner
ISBN-13: 9780299193508, ISBN-10: 0299193500
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: "Because I Do What I Do"	3
1	The Facts and The Facts	18
2	The Road of Excess	28
3	Only a Weltanschauung: Howe's Lost Young Intellectual	44
4	Analysis Terminable: Life as a Man	51
5	The Convalescence, or The Man That Got Away	62
6	This Is How I Will Live: The Ghost Writer	67
7	The Jersey Bounce: Zuckerman Unbound	76
8	The Jawbone of an Ass: The Anatomy Lesson	85
9	"The Prague Orgy" and the Other Europe	96
10	The Five Books of Nathan: The Counterlife	108
11	Impuritanism and Postmodernism: Deception	120
12	You Must Not Forget Anything: Patrimony	126
13	Let Your Jewish Conscience Be Your Guide: Operation Shylock	132
14	Sabbath's Theater	146
15	American Pastoral, or The Jewish King Lear	154
16	Take a Bow, Little Guy: I Married a Communist	174
17	The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: The Human Stain	186
18	Death and the Maiden: The Dying Animal	197
19	Third Thoughts: The Blind Men and the Elephant	207
20	Epilogue: Up Society's Ass, Copper!	221
	Notes	237
	Roth and His Readers: Notes toward a Bibliography	244