Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention
ISBN: 9780816687732
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Popular culture in literature; Aesthetics;

In this exhilarating guide, Craig J. Saper takes us on an eye-opening tour of the process of cultural inventionOCowillfully entertaining foolish, absurd, even fake, solutions as a way of reaching new perspectives on cultural problems. Saper deploys this method to reveal unsuspected connections among major cultural issues, such as urban decay, the dangers of televisionOCOs power, family values, and conservative criticism of higher education."


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