Queering Philip Roth: homosocial discourse in 'An actor’s life for me', 'Letting go', 'Sabbath’s theater' and the 'American trilogy'

Much has been written on Roth’s representation of masculinity, but this critical discourse has tended to be situated within a heteronormative frame of reference, perhaps because of Roth’s popular reputation as an aggressively heterosexual, libidinous, masculinist, in some versions sexist or even misogynist author. In this essay I argue that Roth’s representation of male sexuality is more complex, ambiguous, and ambivalent than has been generally recognized. Tracing a strong thread of what I call homosocial discourse running through Roth’s oeuvre, I suggest that the series of intimate relationships with other men that many of Roth’s protagonists form are conspicuously couched in this discourse and that a recognition of this ought to reconfigure our sense of the sexual politics of Roth’s career, demonstrating in particular that masculinity in his work is too fluid and dynamic to be accommodated by the conventional binaries of heterosexual and homosexual, feminized Jew and hyper-masculine Gentile, the “ordinary sexual man” and the transgressively desiring male subject.

Gulliver, medium, technique

In the four Parts of Gulliver’s Travels the narrator attends closely to the manual skills, crafts and techniques of the different countries visited and to the materials and instruments by which they are mediated. The patterned, motif-like presentation of these observations and their rich contextual background, historical and literary, indicate their special significance. These references to technique play an important, previously underappreciated roll in Gulliver. They form a thematic connection between its embodied, sensual, compulsive descriptions of the world and its socio-political satire, the latter focusing on technocratic, professionalized statecraft. They are crucial to the peculiar fullness with which Swift’s writing imagines different communities of practice, different ecologies of mind.

The foreign debt of the Argentine republic,

Bibliography: p. 179-181.

The treaties of 1778, and allied documents;

I. The preliminaries: Plan of treaties; Instructions to the agent.--II. The treaties: Treaty of amity and commerce; Treaty of alliance; Act separate and secret.--III. The ratification.

Hail, Ceres, hail : cantata for soprano and alto soli, and chorus of mixed voices /

For soloists (SA), chorus (SATB), and piano.

Houdon in America : a collection of documents in the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress /

Mode of access: Internet.

Accredited citations in Ristoro d'Arezzo's Composizione del mondo: a study of sources ...

Thesis (Ph. D.) - John Hopkins University, 1911.

The works of the Right Rev. William Beveridge, with a memoir of the author, and a critical examination of his writings

v. l. Memoir of the life of the author, including critical remarks on his writings. The church catechism explained. Private thoughts on religion. Resolutions formed upon the foregoing articles. Private thoughts upon religion, pt. II. The great advantage and necessity of public prayer. The great necessity and advantage of frequent communion. A defence of the book of Psalms, collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Indexes.--v. 2-6. Sermons.--v.7-8 Thesaurus theologicus.--v.9. An exposition of the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England.

The prepositions in, on, to, for, fore, and æt in Anglo-Saxon prose; a study of case values in Old English ...

Biographical sketch.

The use of Venire and Andare as auxiliary verbs in early Florentine prose. Part 1: The use with past participles. A. Venire. With and introduction.

Thesis - John Hopkins university.

A history of the American revolution: comprehending all the principal events both in the field and in the cabinet.

Projected by Allen, but written by John Neal and Tobias Watkins.

Reports.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Monthly religious magazine and theological review.

Editors: 1844-50, F. D. Huntington; 1859-70, E. H. Sears (1859-June 1870, with R. Ellis; July-Dec. 1870, with J. W. Thompson); 1871-74, J. H. Morison.

An address delivered at the centennial celebration, in Peterborough, N.H., Oct. 24, 1839 /

Cover title: Centennial at Peterborough, N.H.

Observation of manganese nodules on the Muir Seamount during Atlantis Cruise 260

Seamounts are very effectively studied by deep-sea photography. Each photograph can be considered as a sample point when used in connection with bathymetric surveys, dredge samples, and cores, thus making it possible to delineate and map geologic and biologic zones on a seamount. Seamounts transcend through a great depth range and are characterized by minimal sedimentation which results in exciting and photogenic differences of environment over a short distance, as typified by our studies of Great Meteor and the New England Seamounts.