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Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition
Richard Keller Simon
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Description for Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition
Paperback. This text examines the ways the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for the consumer society. It argues for the linking of the high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and for teaching popular culture to understand the books contexts. Num Pages: 199 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 49.
Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of the past. In television, movies, magazines, and advertisements we are exposed to many of the same stories as those critics who study the great books of Western literature, but we have simply been encouraged to ... Read more
Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of the past. In television, movies, magazines, and advertisements we are exposed to many of the same stories as those critics who study the great books of Western literature, but we have simply been encouraged to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520222236
SKU
V9780520222236
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About Richard Keller Simon
Richard K. Simon is Professor of English and Chair of Humanities at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud (1985).
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