{"product_id":"trash-culture-popular-culture-and-the-great-tradition-paperback","title":"Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Keller Simon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners \u003ci\u003eThe Man of Mode\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriends\u003c\/i\u003e as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrash Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe National Enquirer\u003c\/i\u003e and celebrity gossip magazines like \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e 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; \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Courtier\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrash Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Simon] invites respect for popular works as artistic expressions in themselves at the same time as he uses these expressions as hooks to better understand-and appreciate-the 'great' works of the past.--Robert J. Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eTelevision's Second Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTrash Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is original, provocative, strongly argued and an enjoyable as well as informative read. . . We not only see trash culture anew by reading it from a classical critical perspective, but, more startlingly, we see classical critical perspectives anew in relation to how exactly they apply to trash culture.\"--Tony Hilfer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard K. Simon\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Chair of Humanities at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud\u003c\/i\u003e (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 199\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.04 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 23, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424037199974,"sku":"9780520222236","price":63.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bkExdmZMOXYyQVkrS21ROUR4dVAxdz09.webp?v=1775587818","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/trash-culture-popular-culture-and-the-great-tradition-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}