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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.
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In general, a literary formula is a structure of narrative or dramatic conventions employed in a great number of individual works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
classical detective formula, classical detective genre, classical detective story, popular story formulas, detective story formula, procedural subgenre, social melodrama, formulaic literature, crime formulas, western formula, gangster protagonist, formulaic art, moral fantasy, gangster saga, formulaic types, classical detective stories, adventure formulas, mimetic literature, melodramatic vision, formulaic works, formula literature, melodramatic formula, major formulas, literary formulas, tragic melodrama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mike Hammer, Agatha Christie, Philip Marlowe, Dorothy Sayers, Rue Morgue, Mickey Spillane, Irving Wallace, Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter, The Nine Tailors, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Zane Grey, John Ford, Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, Third Girl, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Deadwood Dick, World War, Harold Bell Wright, Harold Robbins, The Moonstone, Owen Wister, Roderick Usher New!
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In general, a literary formula is a structure of narrative or dramatic conventions employed in a great number of individual works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
classical detective formula, classical detective genre, classical detective story, popular story formulas, detective story formula, procedural subgenre, social melodrama, formulaic literature, crime formulas, western formula, gangster protagonist, formulaic art, moral fantasy, gangster saga, formulaic types, classical detective stories, adventure formulas, mimetic literature, melodramatic vision, formulaic works, formula literature, melodramatic formula, major formulas, literary formulas, tragic melodrama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mike Hammer, Agatha Christie, Philip Marlowe, Dorothy Sayers, Rue Morgue, Mickey Spillane, Irving Wallace, Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter, The Nine Tailors, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Zane Grey, John Ford, Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, Third Girl, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Deadwood Dick, World War, Harold Bell Wright, Harold Robbins, The Moonstone, Owen Wister, Roderick Usher New!
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- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett on 11 pages
- The Purloined Letter (Creative's Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe on 8 pages
- Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett on 8 pages
- The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper on 7 pages
- The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace on 6 pages
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- Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction by Maureen T. Reddy on 6 pages
- Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Michael Kowalewski on 5 pages
- Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories by Laurence Roth on 4 pages
- The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction by Frank Richard Prassel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the Other Side (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Adrien Gosselin on page 13, page 254, and page 347
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