'We've Got to Believe Something': Joyce Carol Oates and Celebrity
In Broke Heart Blues and elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates explores the psychology of celebrity worship. The adulation of celebrity is one way in which an American audience reaches for something to believe in. Oates shows how the audience creates the myths and illusions that it chooses to worship.
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2021-12, Vol.54 (4), p.83-98 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In Broke Heart Blues and elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates explores the psychology of celebrity worship. The adulation of celebrity is one way in which an American audience reaches for something to believe in. Oates shows how the audience creates the myths and illusions that it chooses to worship. |
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| ISSN: | 0027-1276 1925-5683 1925-5683 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/mos.2021.a903590 |