Trash Culture Popular Culture and the Great Tradition

Name: Trash Culture Popular Culture and the Great Tradition
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ISBN: 9780520222236

ISBN-10: 0520222237

ISBN-13: 9780520222236

Edition: 1999

Authors: Richard Keller Simon

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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 look at those stories differently. In Trash Culture, Richard K. Simon examines the ways in which the great…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/23/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 199
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Trash and Literature



The Critical Context



Case Studies



Star Wars and The Faerie Queene



The Trash Talk Show



Friends, Seinfeld, and Days of Our Lives



Tragedy, the Enquirer, and the Critics



Values



Advertising and Utopia



The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden



Playboy and The Book of the Courtier



Cosmopolitan and the Woman's Coming-of-Age Novel



History



Star Trek, Gulliver's Travels, and the Problem of History



The Great Books in Vietnam



Matthew Arnold Meets Godzilla


Works Cited


Index