Kremer, Lilian, 18n13, 30, 36

Kundera, Milan, 106, 137

Lee, Hermione, 23, 38–39, 44n27, 45n28, 215, 228, 238

Lehman, Sophia, 46n31

life and art, 87, 90, 92, 120, 164, 184–185, 212

Lonoff, Emanuel Isidore, 46, 48, 51–56, 62–66, 118, 129, 143, 212, 221–222, 255

Mailloux, Steven, 51

Mancia, Mauro, 206

Margolin, Uri, 6n4

Marías, Javier, 106, 110

Marshall, Gregory, 142

Masiero, Pia, 110n65, 165n112

masking, 9–10, 18, 20–21, 24, 165, 221, 236

Matchan, Linda, 130n84

McWhirter, David, 238

Milowitz, Steven, 46n31

My Life as A Man, 9, 12, 17–40, 44, 51–54, 56, 61, 64, 70, 128–129

Tarnopol’s subject in, 22–24, 28

Zuckerman in “Salad Days”, 26–30, 54, 70–71

Zuckerman in “Courting Disaster”, 22, 27–28, 30, 33, 55, 58, 70

Morrison, Toni, 203

narrative coherenceSee also biographical coherence, 122, 141, 228

narrative experimentation, 4, 20, 23, 99, 124, 126, 128, 182, 219

non sequitur, 10, 98, 105, 227

Oates, Joyce Carol, 36, 51

O’Donnell, Patrick, 22n16, 23, 45, 47

Olney, James, 129

Operation Shylock, 140, 183

order of presentation, 4, 11, 47, 58, 148, 150, 180, 193

Palmer, Alan, 6–7, 70, 107n64

paratextSee also epigraphs, 4, 10, 18–19, 24, 32, 56, 127–128, 130, 136, 214, 231–234

pastoral mode

in The Counterlife, 133,

in American Pastoral, 153–154, 155n101, 159

Parrish, Timothy, 2, 4, 160n108, 197n144, 198–199, 202n154, 205

Patrimony, 80, 86, 125, 127, 140

Pavel, Thomas, 7n8, 58, 229

perspective. See focalization

Perry, Menakhem, 12, 25, 27–28, 61, 62n34, 177

Phelan, James, 7n5, 166, 197, 235–236

Philip Roth Society, 5

Plante, David, 81n47

Plimpton, George, 10, 38

Podhoretz, Norman, 180n126

poeticsSee also art of fiction, 4, 11, 41, 78, 128, 148, 193, 212

post-ethnicity, 112, 114, 116, 157–158, 193, 203

postmodernismSee also narrative experimentation, 13, 23, 29, 45, 48, 102, 104, 106, 136, 227, 227

Posnock, Ross, 26n20, 92n56, 103, 105–106, 185n130, 132, 145, 148, 152–153, 184, 194, 201, 203

Pozorski, Aimee, 5, 46n31