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Chargement... Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)par John G. Cawelti
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book was pretty good IMHO for being a scholarly analytical sort of work. I had to take it in smaller chunks than I normally do, shifting my reading speed down, as it’s a very dense book. The chapters are also very long (9 chapters in an over 300-page book). Overall, if you’re really interested in digging deeper into the roots and social value of the adventure, mystery, and romance genres, especially detective fiction and the Western, then this is the book for you; with the previously mentioned caveats of course. If you’re not in for an extended, involved read, then you might want to stay away. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, and Owen Wister's The Virginian in the light of his hypotheses about the cultural function of formula literature. He describes the most important artistic characteristics of popular formula stories and the differences between this literature and that commonly labeled "high" or "serious" literature. He also defines the archetypal patterns of adventure, mystery, romance, melodrama, and fantasy, and offers a tentative account of their basis in human psychology. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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