David Brauner Publications
2020
Brauner, D. (2020) Howard Jacobson. Manchester University Press, pp248. ISBN 9781526101495
Brauner, D. (2020) A bit of Jewish-American mischief: fictional metabiography in Alan Lelchuk’s Ziff: A Life? and Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost. Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines. ISSN 0397-7870 (In Press)
2019
Brauner, D. (2019) Reimagining the past, imagining the future: myth, history,and mystery in contemporary Jewish American fiction. In: Aarons, V. (ed.) The New Jewish American Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-155. ISBN 9781108665322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108665322
Brauner, D. and Shostak, D. (2019) Editors' note for special memorial issue of Philip Roth Studies. Philip Roth Studies, 15 (1). pp. 1-2. ISSN 1547-3929 doi: https://doi.org/10.5703/philrothstud.15.1.0001
Brauner, D. (2019) My own private Philip Roth. Philip Roth Studies, 15 (1). pp. 39-44. ISSN 1547-3929 doi: https://doi.org/10.5703/philrothstud.15.1.0039
Brauner, D. and Abrams, N., eds. (2019) The interface between British contemporary Black and Jewish cultures. Jewish Culture and History, 20 (3). Taylor & Francis, pp. 199-203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2019.1639892
Brauner, D. (2019) The politics of identity: cultural appropriation and black-Jewish Relations in Zoe Heller’s 'The Believers'. Jewish Culture and History, 20 (3). pp. 263-276. ISSN 1462-169X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2019.1639332
2017
Brauner, D. (2017) Bellow's short fiction. In: The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow. Cambridge University Press, pp. 159-170. ISBN 9781107108936
Brauner, D. (2017) The Sons of Phil: Rothian self-satire and self-incrimination in Shalom Auslander’s 'Foreskin’s Lament' and Gary Shteyngart’s 'Little Failure'. Open Library of the Humanities, 3 (2). 15. ISSN 2056-6700 doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.143
2016
Brauner, D. (2016) Performance anxiety: impotence, queerness, and the 'drama of self-disgust' in Philip Roth's 'The Professor of Desire and The Humbling'. In: Gooblar, D. and Pozorski, A. (eds.) Roth After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination. Lexington Books, pp. 61-78. ISBN 9781498514651
Brauner, D. (2016) Absent presences: paradoxes of representation and self-representation in (post)-9/11 comics. In: Morley, C. (ed.) 9/11. Topics in Contemporary North American Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 61-81. ISBN 9781472569707
2015
Brauner, D. (2015) Intertextuality, authenticity, and gonzo selves in Anya Ulinich’s 'Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel'. Studies in Comics, 6 (2). pp. 253-269. ISSN 2040-3232 doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/stic.6.2.253_1
Brauner, D. (2015) Queering Philip Roth: homosocial discourse in 'An actor’s life for me', 'Letting go', 'Sabbath’s theater' and the 'American trilogy'. Studies in the Novel, 48 (1). pp. 86-106. ISSN 1934-1512 doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2016.0003
Brauner, D. (2015) History on a personal note: postwar American Jewish short stories. In: The Edinburgh companion to modern Jewish fiction. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 105 -118. ISBN 9780748646159
Brauner, D. and Staehler, A. (2015) Introduction: modern Jewish fiction. In: The Edinburgh companion to modern Jewish fiction. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9780748646159
Brauner, D. and Staehler, A., eds. (2015) The Edinburgh companion to modern Jewish fiction. Edinburgh Companions to Literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748646159
2014
Brauner, D. (2014) Jewish mothers and Jewish memory in contemporary memoirs. In: Valman, N. (ed.) Jewish Women Writers in Britain. Wayne State University Press, pp. 192-215. ISBN 9780814332382
Brauner, D. (2014) Fetishizing the Holocaust: comedy and transatlantic connections in Howard Jacobson's 'Kalooki Nights'. European Judaism, 47 (2). pp. 21-29. ISSN 1752-2323 doi: https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2014.47.02.04
Brauner, D. (2014) The turd that won't flush: the comedy of Jewish self-hatred in the work of Corinne Pearlman, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross and Ariel Schrag. In: Lightman, S. (ed.) Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics. McFarland, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9780786465538
2013
Brauner, D. (2013) 'Stories never told : canonicity, history and herstory in Dan Jacobson's Her story and the godfearer'. In: Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S. (eds.) Trauma narratives and herstory. Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 129-140. ISBN 9781137268341
2012
Brauner, D. (2012) Much ado about nothing: boredom, banality and bathos in late Henry Green and early John Updike. Yearbook of English Studies, 42. pp. 186-203. ISSN 2222-4289 doi: https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.42.2012.0186 (Literature of the 1950s and 1960s)
Brauner, D. (2012) Lorrie Moore collection, 'A Little Ethnic Kink Is Always Good to See”: Jewish performance anxiety and anti-passing in the fiction of Lorrie Moore. Journal of American Studies, 46 (3). pp. 581-602. ISSN 1469-5154 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875811001940
Brauner, D. and MacPherson, H. S. (2012) Lorrie Moore: Mo(o)re than an interim assessment. Journal of American Studies, 46 (3). pp. 541-550. ISSN 1469-5154 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875811001927
Brauner, D. (2012) No Man's Land: the transgendered voice in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and Rose Tremain's Sacred Country. In: Kim, R. and Westall, C. (eds.) Cross-gendered literary voices: appropriating, resisting, embracing. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 148-163. ISBN 9780230299870
2011
Brauner, D. (2011) “What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened”: subverting history in American pastoral. In: Shostak, D. (ed.) Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain and The Plot Against America. Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction. Continuum, pp. 19-32. ISBN 9780826422279
Brauner, D. (2011) American anti-pastoral: incontinence and impurity in 'American Pastoral' and 'The Human Stain'. In: Ivanovna, V. D. (ed.) Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. Universitaire du Mirail, Mirail, Toulouse, pp. 195-204. ISBN 9782810701605
2010
Brauner, D. (2010) Contemporary American fiction. Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press, UK, pp256. ISBN 9780748622672
Brauner, D. (2010) Jewish American fiction. In: Seed, D. (ed.) A companion to twentieth-century United States fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 96-108. ISBN 9781405146913
Brauner, D. (2010) Masturbation and its discontents; or, serious relief: Freudian comedy in 'Portnoy's Complaint'. In: Siegel , B. and Halio, J. L. (eds.) Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer. University of Delaware Press, pp. 47-67. ISBN 9781611491470
Brauner, D. (2010) Writing the triple whammy: Canadian-Jewish Québécois identity, the comedy of self-deprecation, and the triumph of Duddy Kravitz. Canadian Literature, 207. pp. 76-88. ISSN 0008-4360
2009
Brauner, D. (2009) "The days after" and "the ordinary run of hours": counternarratives and double vision in Don DeLillo's 'Falling Man'. Review of International America Studies, 3/4 (3/1). pp. 72-81. ISSN 1991-2773
2007
Brauner, D. (2007) Fifty ways to see your lover: vision and revision in the fiction of Amy Bloom. In: Stähler, A. (ed.) Anglophone Jewish literature. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Routledge, Oxford, pp. 108-120. ISBN 9780415414647
Brauner, D. (2007) Philip Roth. Contemporary American and Canadian novelists. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp272. ISBN 9780719074240
2006
Brauner, D. (2006) Bellow at your elbow, Roth breathing down your neck: gender and ethnicity in Linda Grant and Bernice Rubens. In: Tylee, C. M. (ed.) "In the open": Jewish women writers and British culture. University of Delaware Press, Newark, USA, pp. 96-109. ISBN 0874139333
Brauner, D. (2006) Will the real King David please stand up?: unauthorized versions of the King David story in three post-war Jewish novels. In: Knight, M. and Woodman, T. (eds.) Biblical religion and the novel, 1700–2000. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp. 105-120. ISBN 9780754651178
2005
Brauner, D. (2005) "Getting in your retaliation first": narrative strategies in Portnoy's complaint. In: Royal, D. P. (ed.) Philip Roth: new perspectives on an American author. Praeger, Westport, pp. 43-57. ISBN 9780275983635
2004
Brauner, D. (2004) American anti-pastoral: incontinence and impurity in Philip Roth’s 'American Pastoral' and 'The Human Stain'. Studies in American Jewish Literature, 23. pp. 67-76. ISSN 1948-5077
Brauner, D. (2004) Brilliant Jewish boys and gifted Jewish girls: the child prodigy in Bernice Rubens and Rebecca Goldstein. In: Behlau, U. and Reitz, B. (eds.) Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States. Mainz University Studies in English (5). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 217-226. ISBN 3884766686
2003
Brauner, D. (2003) Arguing with himself: the criticism of Leslie Fiedler. Jewish Quarterly, 190. pp. 53-57. ISSN 1456-640X
2002
Brauner, D. (2002) Lisa Appignanesi. In: Kramer, S. L. (ed.) Holocaust literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their work. Routledge, London, pp. 61-63. ISBN 9780415929851
Brauner, D. (2002) Louise Kehoe. In: Kramer, S. L. (ed.) Holocaust literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their work. Routledge, London, pp. 625-627. ISBN 9780415929851
2001
Brauner, D. (2001) Post-War Jewish fiction: ambivalence, self-explanation and transatlantic connections. Palgrave Macmillan, pp236. ISBN 9780333740354