Simon, Richard K.

Trash culture : popular culture and the great tradition. - 189 p. ; 23 cm.

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. 1. 2. Pt. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 2. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. 3. 11. 12. 13.

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Popular culture.
Popular culture in literature

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