Philip Roth - The Continuing Presence

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Philip Roth – The Continuing Presence: New Essays on Psychological Themes is a groundbreaking psychoanalytically-themed collection of essays on Philip Roth by Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote, that for the first time in collected form explores the insides and undersides of Philip Roth the human being and his works. The volume consists of essays and interviews revealing the surprising and sometimes shocking underworld of Roth and his books.

As a Jewish-American Philip Roth scholar, Statlander-Slote has written a number of books on Roth and related subjects, and is one of the leading scholars in these combined literary fields. In this volume, a compelling harvest of psychoanalytical themes is revealed in never-before published essays by leading American Roth scholars.

A number of the volume's essays revolve around the revelations of Roth's psychoanalyst, Dr. Hans Kleinschmidt. Kleinschmidt breached doctor-patient confidentiality through an ultimately recognizable description of Roth, publishing in-therapy, highly personal monologues that Roth had revealed about himself, in Imago, a psychoanalytical journal established by Sigmund Freud.

Statlander-Slote, like Roth, was born and raised in the Newark, New Jersey Weequahic area and has taught as an English professor in Miami, Florida, as well as other avenues of education, for many years. The other contributors, Roth scholars as well, teach at various American universities and also publish books on a variety of subjects in American literature and psychologically based themes.

Literary Criticism / Psychology. Contributors (long version) - Victoria Aarons holds the O.R. & Eva Mitchell Endowed Chair in Literature at Trinity University where she is Chair of the English Department and teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. Dr. Aarons is guest editor for a special issue of Philip Roth Studies titled Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud: Texts of a Relationship. She is currently engaged in research on second and third-generation Holocaust writing.

• Jane Statlander-Slote is a Professor of English at Miami International University of Art & Design. She is the author of volumes on Philip Roth, other Jewish-American writers and American Historical Romance, including, Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance: Critical Essays on Selected Works, 2012; Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance (Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers), 2010; Cultural Dialectic (Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers), 2002. She is also a documentary film filmmaker.


• Andrew Gordon is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Florida, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer; Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg; co-author, with Hernán Vera, of Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness; and co-editor, with Peter L. Rudnytsky, of Psychoanalyses/Feminisms. He has also written many essays on Jewish-American writers, including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, and Art Spiegelman.


• Daniel Walden is Professor Emeritus, Penn State University, who has written about Philip Roth since the 1970s. He was the Founding Editor of Studies in American Jewish Literature (1975-2011), and has 100 articles on Jewish American and African American literature. Please see: http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/dxw8


• Estelle Gershgoren Novak has a Ph.D. in English, specializing in modern American Literature. She has taught at various universities in California for over thirty years, including classes in Jewish American Fiction several times at UCLA. She has published an essay on Philip Roth in Reading Philip Roth(Asher Milbauer and D.G. Watson) and on I.J. Singer in a forthcoming book with Maximillian E. Novak ( “The Writer as Exile: I. J. Singer”). She is also a published poet with three books, The Shape of a Pear, The Flesh of Their Dreams and Lot’s Wife and Other Poems.


• Maximillian E. Novak is Distinguished Research Professor of English at UCLA. He has written on modern Jewish-American writers such as I. B. Singer and his brother I.J. Singer. He is well known for his work on the development of the novel, especially for his studies of Daniel Defoe. The course in Jewish-American fiction that he developed and then taught at UCLA for over twenty five years, featuring Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow, was started during the 1960s at a time when few or no such courses existed.


• Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the author of thirteen books including, most recently, Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life. Please see: Jeffrey Berman Recognized Nationally for Making a Profound Difference Named One of America's Best Professors by Princeton Review


• Lew Fried is an Emeritus Professor of English, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, Lew Fried has written about American-Jewish literature, and American urban thought. He also was the editor of the "United States Literature" section of the recent Encyclopaedia Judaica. In addition, he has lectured in Europe, Asia, and Israel.


• Derek Parker Royal is the creator and executive editor of the scholarly journal Philip Roth Studies. He is the author of volumes and essays on Philip Roth and other Jewish-American writers. Dr. Royal received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Other areas of reading and research include American ethnoracial narrative, film studies, Jewish American fiction, late nineteenth-century American literature, and narrative theory. Please see:
Miriam Jaffe-Foger is Director of Writing at the Doctorate in Social Work Program at Rutgers University. She received her PhD from Rutgers in 2008 and is currently at work on her Masters in Social Work. She teaches composition, American literature with a specialty in ethnic studies, and interns for the Tyler Clementi Center. Her publications focus on the work of Philip Roth. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Philip Roth and the Narrativization of Illness" as well as a textbook for bridging the gap between writing in the humanities and the sciences.


• Peter L. Rudnytsky is a Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Freud and Oedipus (1987), The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud (1991), Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics (2000), Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (2002), and Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision (2011). His articles on Roth have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature and Philip Roth Studies.