Ebook: Roth and Celebrity
Author: Pozorski Aimee L., Royal Derek, Bloom James
- Tags: Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century, LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General, Celebrities--United States, Popular culture--United States--History--20th century, Popular culture, Authors and readers, Celebrities, History, Criticism interpretation etc, Roth Philip -- Criticism and interpretation, Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Celebrities -- United States, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Gen
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- City: Lanham Md;United States
- Language: English
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Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.;Roth and celebrity: an introduction / Aimee Pozorski -- Paying attention to the man behind the curtain: Philip Roth and the dynamics of written and unwritten celebrity / Derek Royal -- Philip Roth's Lover's quarrel / James Bloom -- Philip Roth and film / Ira Nadel -- Philip Roth: death and celebrity / Miriam Jaffe Foger -- "Into thin air": Roth and celebrity selfhood / Debra Shostak -- Twilight of the superheroes: Philip Roth, celebrity, and the end of print culture / Matthew Shipe -- "And now ... the feature attraction": Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in Sabbath's Theater / Maggie McKinley -- double consciousness and the Jewish heart of darkness: the counterlife and Operation Shylock / Brett Ashley Kaplan -- Dis/simulation within metafiction: hiding and disguising as literary compulsion in the fiction of Philip Roth / Nigel Rodenhurst -- Fanfare for agoraphobia / Mark Shechner -- Contributors' biographies.
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