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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature

Autor Thomas R. Whissen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mar 1992 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Question: What does Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) have in common with Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)? Answer: Actually a great deal. They are classics of cult fiction and share many attributes. Cult fiction is a reader-created genre. A cult book can appear within any type of literary genre--for instance, romance, mystery, science fiction--but will achieve cult status only on the basis of reader response. It has qualities that speak to a reader, who may feel that it has been written for him or her alone; yet this very personal appeal is widespread, and such a book may grow in popularity almost as an underground movement, inspiring a generation of readers and sometimes enduring as a mainstream classic. Though amazingly diverse, such books also have astonishing commonalities pervasive enough to qualify them as comprising a genre.Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become bibles to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past two hundred years. Though canon formation is an awesome prospect, sure to lead to challenges by scholars and readers alike, author Thomas Whissen fearlessly identifies the top fifty classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. Cult fiction is shown to be a product of the Romantic movement and a reflection of the persistent romantic temperament in Western civilization. The work offers insights into the mentality of the Golden Age of Cult Fiction, the 1960s, by analyzing the cult books that both influenced the age and were influenced by it. The fifty individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top fifty. An original approach to criticism, this literary companion argues the case for cult fiction as a distinct genre and offers fifty fresh and thought provoking essays to back up the contention.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313265501
ISBN-10: 031326550X
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

THOMAS REED WHISSEN is Professor of English at Wright State University. Among his academic interests are the topics of decadence in literature, cult literature, and writing and editing. His most recent books reflect these interests, including A Way with Words and The Devil's Advocates: Decadence in Modern Literature (Greenwood Press, 1989). His own way with words has led him into fiction, poetry, and lyrics as well as scholarship, and he is presently developing a study tentatively titled Wretched Writing and Why It Works.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroductionCult ClassicsAgainst Nature, Joris-Karl HuysmansAnimal Farm, George OrwellAnother Roadside Attraction, Tom RobbinsAxel, Philippe Auguste Villiers de Lísle-AdamBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard FarinaThe Bell Jar, Sylvia PlathBrave New World, Aldous HuxleyA Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. SalingerCatch-22, Joseph HellerA Clockwork Orange, Anthony BurgessThe Day of the Locust, Nathanael WestDemian, Hermann HesseDune, Frank HerbertFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. ThompsonThe Fountainhead, Ayn RandFrankenstein, or the Modern Promethus, Mary ShelleyThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas AdamsThe Killer Inside Me, Jim ThompsonLady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. LawrenceLolita, Vladimir NabokovLook Homeward, Angel, Thomas WolfeLord of the Flies, William GoldingLord of the Rings, J.R.R. TolkienLost Horizon, James HiltonLucky Jim, Kingsley AmisOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken KeseyOn the Road, Jack KerouacThe Outsider, Colin WilsonThe Outsiders, S.E. HintonPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James JoyceRenEÉ, Francois-RenEÉ de ChateaubriandA Separate Peace, John KnowlesSiddhartha, Hermann HesseSlaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, Kurt VonnegutThe Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Stand, Stephen KingSteppenwolf, Hermann HesseThe Stranger, Albert CamusStranger in a Strange Land, Robert HeinleinThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest HemingwayThe Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos CastanedaThis Side of Paradise, F. Scott FitzgeraldTime and Again, Jack FinneyTrout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. ClarkeWalden II, B. F. SkinnerWarlock, Oakley HallZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. PirsigChronological Listing of Cult FictionWorks CitedBibliography of Primary Works: First and Current EditionsBooks for Further ReadingIndex