Star Struck
Star Struck

Author: Sam Riley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-12-09

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0313358133

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This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.

Ernest Hemingway in Context
Ernest Hemingway in Context

Author: Debra A. Moddelmog

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1107010551

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"This book: Provides the fullest introduction to Hemingway and his world found in a single volume ; Offers contextual essays written on a range of topics by experts in Hemingway studies ; Provides a highly useful reference work for scholarship as well as teaching, excellent for classes on Hemingway, modernism and American literature."--Publisher's website.

Richardson and Fielding
Richardson and Fielding

Author: Allen Michie

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780838754191

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"Richardson and Fielding: The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry is the first book-length study of one of literature's most persistent and influential rivalries. Using an adaptation of Hans Jauss's reception theory, it surveys the recurring dichotomies projected onto Richardson and Fielding by all types of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century readers. Even when the rival is not mentioned directly, readers usually make it pointedly clear that one author is being privileged at the other's expense." "Even apart from its serious implications for literary history, the story of the Richardson/Fielding rivalry is a fascinating source of critical passions, prejudices, scholarly irresponsibility, wit, and often surprising interrelations between the literary tastes and cultural environments of the day."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem
The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem

Author: Myrick Land

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780331486186

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Excerpt from The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds Norman Mailer and gp. Putnam's Sons for brief quotations from Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer, copyright 1959 by Norman Mailer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1983-10

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence

Author: Thomas Jackson Rice

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1351046330

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Originally published in 1983, D.H. Lawrence is an annotated bibliographic collection of works by and about D.H. Lawrence. Consisting of three parts, the primary bibliography contains separate bibliographies of Lawrence’s major publications, of collection editions of his works, of his letters, and of concordances to his writings. The secondary bibliography contains bibliographies of biographical and critical publications concerning Lawrence, generally or his individual works. Appendixes and Indexes include an extensive checklist of major foreign-language publications concerning Lawrence and a useful topical and thematic subject index for the guide.