Roth and Celebrity
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2012
220 pages
978-0-7391-7062-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-7062-5 (9780739170625)
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Persons
Aimee Pozorski is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches contemporary American literature and trauma theory. She is the author of Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) which appeared with Continuum in 2011 and currently has a second book under contract with Continuum entitled, Falling After 9-11: American Art and Literature in Crisis. She has co-edited with Miriam Jaffe-Foger the special issue of Philip Roth Studies entitled, "Mourning Zuckerman." Her essays have appeared in such journals as The Hemingway Review, Paideuma, Philip Roth Studies, MELUS, PostModern Culture, and ANQ. She currently serves as President of the Philip Roth Society.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Roth and Celebrity: An Introduction, Aimee Pozorski
Chapter 2: Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Philip Roth and the Dynamics of Written and Unwritten Celebrity, Derek Royal
Chapter 3: Philip Roth's Lover's Quarrel, James Bloom
Chapter 4: Philip Roth and Film, Ira Nadel
Chapter 5: Philip Roth: Death and Celebrity, Miriam Jaffe Foger
Chapter 6: "Into Thin Air": Roth and Celebrity Selfhood, Debra Shostak
Chapter 7: Twilight of the Superheroes: Philip Roth, Celebrity, and the End of Print Culture, Matthew Shipe
Chapter 8: "And now ... the feature attraction": Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in Sabbath's Theater, Maggie McKinley
Chapter 9: Double Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock, Brett Ashley Kaplan
Chapter 10: Dis/simulation within Metafiction: Hiding and Disguising as Literary Compulsion in the Fiction of Philip Roth, Nigel Rodenhurst
Chapter 11:. Fanfare for Agoraphobia, Mark Shechner
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Roth and Celebrity: An Introduction, Aimee Pozorski
Chapter 2: Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Philip Roth and the Dynamics of Written and Unwritten Celebrity, Derek Royal
Chapter 3: Philip Roth's Lover's Quarrel, James Bloom
Chapter 4: Philip Roth and Film, Ira Nadel
Chapter 5: Philip Roth: Death and Celebrity, Miriam Jaffe Foger
Chapter 6: "Into Thin Air": Roth and Celebrity Selfhood, Debra Shostak
Chapter 7: Twilight of the Superheroes: Philip Roth, Celebrity, and the End of Print Culture, Matthew Shipe
Chapter 8: "And now ... the feature attraction": Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in Sabbath's Theater, Maggie McKinley
Chapter 9: Double Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock, Brett Ashley Kaplan
Chapter 10: Dis/simulation within Metafiction: Hiding and Disguising as Literary Compulsion in the Fiction of Philip Roth, Nigel Rodenhurst
Chapter 11:. Fanfare for Agoraphobia, Mark Shechner
