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Roth and celebrity /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pozorski, Aimee L. (Aimee Lynn)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.