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Roth and Celebrity By:Aimee Pozorski Published on 2012 by Lexington Books 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. This Book was ranked at 16 by Google Books for keyword celebrity. Book ID of Roth and Celebrity's Books is XXP_RUhYI9QC, Book which was written byAimee Pozorskihave ETAG "AV7yeGaW3+U" Book which was published by Lexington Books since 2012 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780739170618 and ISBN 10 Code is 0739170619 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "191 Pages...

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity By:Karen Leick Published on 2013-05-13 by Routledge This book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Specifically, Leick reveals through the case study of Stein that the relationship between mass culture and modernism in America was less antagonistic, more productive and integrated than previous studies have suggested. This Book was ranked at 15 by Google Books for keyword celebrity. Book ID of Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity's Books is LYkcO3OY2ekC, Book which was written byKaren Leickhave ETAG "HFXOf1naGiY...

Literary Celebrity in Canada By:Lorraine York Published on 2017-05-08 by University of Toronto Press In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field of Canadian literature. Building on the argument that celebrity is a phenomenon firmly embraced by mainstream culture, Lorraine York examines it in relation to various tensions and conflicts within the literary community and beyond. Using as examples three contemporary literary celebrities, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields, and four earlier popular writers, Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, and L.M. Montgomery, York demonstrates that individual authors respond differently to fame in ways that can be contradictory and complex. She casts doubt on the noti...

Writing Celebrity By:T. Galow Published on 2011-06-06 by Springer Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on |literary| writing in the decades before World War II. The second two sections of the book demonstrate the relevance of celebrity for literary scholarship by re-evaluating the careers of two major American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. This Book was ranked at 8 by Google Books for keyword celebrity. Book ID of Writing Celebrity's Books is Va5gAQAAQBAJ, Book which was written byT. Galowhave ETAG "mCJdKyWKGwY" Book which was published by Springer since 2011-06-06 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780230119499 and ISBN 10 Code is 0230119492 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "235 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryLiterary Criticism This...

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars By:Faye Hammill Published on 2009-12-03 by University of Texas Press As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved literary celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work remains popular even today. Faye Hammill investigates how the fame and commercial success of these writers—as well as their gender—affected the literary reception of their work. She explores how women writers sought to fashi...

Sentiment and Celebrity By:Thomas N. Baker Published on 1998-12-31 by Oxford University Press How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century? In answering this question, Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once called |the most talked-about author in America.| A widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and |magazinist| Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) was a pioneer in the modern business of celebrity. In his heyday, he knew both popularity and success as few other American writers had. Willis, who became the gossip-dishing darling of the middle class and whose sister was the popular writer Fanny Fern (of Ruth Hall fame), was a shrewdly self-styled man of letters who attained international fame by publicizing the renowned figures of the day, including himself, and by play...

The Metaphor of Celebrity By:Joel Deshaye Published on 2013-10-30 by University of Toronto Press The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom – Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, and Gwendolyn MacEwen – and the specific moments in Canadian history that affected the ways in which they were received by the broader public. Joel Deshaye elucidates the relationship between literary celebrity and metaphor in the identity crises of celebrities, who must try to balance their public and private selves in the face of considerable publicity. He also examines the ways in which celebrity in Canadian poetry developed in a unique way in light of the significant cultural events of the decades between 1950 and 1980, including the Massey Commission, the flourishing of Canadian publishing, and the considerable interest in poetry in the 196...