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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 literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as
The National Enquirer
and celebrity gossip magazines like
People
serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods;
Playboy
magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book,
The Book of the Courtier
; and
Cosmopolitan
magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.
concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.
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 literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as
The National Enquirer
and celebrity gossip magazines like
People
serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods;
Playboy
magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book,
The Book of the Courtier
; and
Cosmopolitan
magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.
concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.
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 literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as
The National Enquirer
and celebrity gossip magazines like
People
serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods;
Playboy
magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book,
The Book of the Courtier
; and
Cosmopolitan
magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.
concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.
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 literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as
The National Enquirer
and celebrity gossip magazines like
People
serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods;
Playboy
magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book,
The Book of the Courtier
; and
Cosmopolitan
magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.
concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.
