Roth and celebrity
By: edited by Aimee Pozorski
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780739170618; 9780739170625
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Popular culture; Authors and readers; Celebrities; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Roth and celebrity: an introduction / Aimee Pozorski; title: Paying attention to the man behind the curtain: Philip Roth and the dynamics of written and unwritten celebrity / Derek Royal; title: Philip Roth's Lover's quarrel / James Bloom; title: Philip Roth and film / Ira Nadel; title: Philip Roth: death and celebrity / Miriam Jaffe Foger; title: "Into thin air": Roth and celebrity selfhood / Debra Shostak; title: Twilight of the superheroes: Philip Roth, celebrity, and the end of print culture / Matthew Shipe; title: "And now ... the feature attraction": Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in Sabbath's Theater / Maggie McKinley; title: double consciousness and the Jewish heart of darkness: the counterlife and Operation Shylock / Brett Ashley Kaplan; title: Dis/simulation within metafiction: hiding and disguising as literary compulsion in the fiction of Philip Roth / Nigel Rodenhurst; title: Fanfare for agoraphobia / Mark Shechner; title: Contributors' biographies.