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This course will guide you through some of the high points of Philip Roth's prolific career, exploring differences between the humor and pathos of his early novels, Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus as well as the dark, meditative philosophy of his latest works, among them, Everyman and Exit, Ghost. The vast criticism surrounding Roth as one of America's major writers, as a voice for the Jewish experience and the immigrant experience, and as a major intellectual examining race and class in America, will be sampled. A reader of Roth criticism and writings will be available, and students should purchase the following novels and shorter writings:
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
The Human Stain (2001)
Everyman (2006)
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