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Roth and celebrity / edited by Aimee Pozorski.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Celebrities--United States.
- Celebrities.
- Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
- Roth, Philip.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Roth and Celebrity; 2 Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain; 3 Philip Roth's Lover's Quarrel; 4 Philip Roth and Film; 5 Philip Roth; 6 "Into Thin Air"; 7 Twilight of the Superheroes; 8 "And now . . . the feature attraction"; 9 Double-Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness; 10 Dis/simulation Within Metafiction; 11 Fanfare for Agoraphobia; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-61815-X
- 0-7391-7062-7
- 9786613930606
- OCLC:
- 812292740
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