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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Main Author Pozorski, Aimee
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Blue Ridge Summit Lexington Books 2012
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Edition1
Subjects
20th century
Authors and readers
Celebrities
Criticism and interpretation
History
Popular culture
Roth, Philip
United States
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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. 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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