Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern GenresHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1990 - 219 pages This work questions the distinction between "high" literature and "popular" culture and draws attention to a disconcerting level of similarity between the two, finding parallels between Hollywood and Shakespeare and common elements in Lloyd Webber, Spielberg and Emily Bronte. |
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High literature and popular genres | 3 |
The unAmerican villain and the allAmerican mans man | 13 |
What do women really want? The ladies man and | 28 |
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