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Roth and Celebrity

Roth and Celebrity



von: Aimee L. Pozorski, Derek Royal, James Bloom, Ira Nadel, Miriam Jaffe Foger, Debra Shostak, Matthew Shipe, Maggie McKinley, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Nigel Rodenhurst, Mark Shechner

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Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 14.09.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9780739170625
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 220

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Titelbeschreibung

<span><span><span>Roth and Celebrity</span><span> 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. </span></span><br><span></span></span>

Titelkurzbeschreibung

<span><span>Roth and Celebrity</span><span> 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. </span></span>
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

<span><span>Contents<br>Acknowledgments <br>Chapter 1: Roth and Celebrity: An Introduction, </span><span>Aimee Pozorski </span><span><br>Chapter 2: Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Philip Roth and the Dynamics of Written and Unwritten Celebrity, </span><span>Derek Royal </span><span><br>Chapter 3: Philip Roth’s Lover’s Quarrel, </span><span>James Bloom</span><span><br>Chapter 4: Philip Roth and Film, </span><span>Ira Nadel</span><span><br>Chapter 5: Philip Roth: Death and Celebrity, </span><span>Miriam Jaffe Foger</span><span><br>Chapter 6: “Into Thin Air”: Roth and Celebrity Selfhood, </span><span>Debra Shostak</span><span><br>Chapter 7: </span><span>Twilight of the Superheroes</span><span>: Philip Roth, Celebrity, and the End of Print Culture, </span><span>Matthew Shipe<br></span><span>Chapter 8: “And now ... the feature attraction”: Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in </span><span>Sabbath’s Theater, Maggie McKinley </span><span><br>Chapter 9: Double Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: </span><span>The Counterlife</span><span> and </span><span>Operation Shylock, Brett Ashley Kaplan</span><span><br>Chapter 10: Dis/simulation within Metafiction: Hiding and Disguising as Literary Compulsion in the Fiction of Philip Roth, </span><span>Nigel Rodenhurst</span><span><br>Chapter 11:. Fanfare for Agoraphobia, </span><span>Mark Shechner </span><span><br><br></span></span>
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Autorenportrait

<span><span>Aimee Pozorski</span><span> is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches contemporary American literature and trauma theory. She is the author of </span><span>Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010)</span><span> which appeared with Continuum in 2011 and currently has a second book under contract with Continuum entitled, </span><span>Falling After 9-11: American Art and Literature in Crisis</span><span>. She has co-edited with Miriam Jaffe-Foger the special issue of </span><span>Philip Roth Studies</span><span> entitled, “Mourning Zuckerman.” Her essays have appeared in such journals as </span><span>The Hemingway Review</span><span>, </span><span>Paideuma</span><span>, </span><span>Philip Roth Studies</span><span>, </span><span>MELUS</span><span>, </span><span>PostModern Culture</span><span>, and </span><span>ANQ</span><span>. She currently serves as President of the Philip Roth Society. <br></span></span>
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