John G Cawelti
Biographic Data
| ID | 306725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John G Cawelti |
| GIVEN NAMES | John G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cawelti |
| SIGNATURE | CAWELTI J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture: Essays
' Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture' is John G. Cawelti's discussion of American popular culture and violence, from its precursors in Homer and Shakespeare to the Lone Ranger and Superman. Cawelti deciphers the overt sexuality, detached violence, and political intrigue embedded within Batman and .007. He analyzes the work of such famous pop-culture icons as Alfred Hitchcock, the Beatles, and Andy Warhol, and looks at a range of films, from '…
Reregionalizing America: A New View of American Culture after World War II
Eliot, Joyce, and Exile
(2001). Eliot, Joyce, and Exile. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 38-45
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
Book Review| September 01 2001 Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science By Ronald R. Thomas. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. xviii,341 pp. $59.95. John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 643–644. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-643 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ic…
Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the Time of Greatness in Germany
Book Review| June 01 2000 Literature at War, 1914-1940:Representing the Time of Greatness in Germany By Wolfgang G. Natter. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. 280 pp.$35.00. John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 430–431. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-430 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J…
Detecting the Detective
(1999). Detecting the Detective. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 44-55
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life
Journal Article Mystery Fiction and Modern Life. By R. Gordon Kelly. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-005-2. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-032-X.) Get access John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1640–1641, https://d…
What Rough Beast—New Westerns
Popular Culture/Multiculturalism
Earthly Thoughts on Divine Days
Leon Forrest's new novel Divine Days was published in the Spring of 1992. It is his fourth novel and both a considerable departure from, and, to use one of Forrest's own favorite terms and themes, a of his previous work. It is much longer than his first three novels and has a very different range of episodes and characters, but it is also a reinvention of Forest county1 and presents new insights into a variety of characters who have appeared in e…
Gavin Stevens: Faulkner's Favorite
Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Janice A. Radway
With the benefit of hindsight: Popular culture criticism
This essay identifies two traditional, quasi‐theological approaches to mass media criticism. One approach develops from a concern for the so‐called educational possibilities of mass media; the other develops from a philosophical commitment to media determinism. Ways of improving these two lines of criticism are suggested. The essay argues for a critical approach to mass media which employs the aesthetic or generic methods developed by popular cul…
Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture . David Marc
The Question Of Popular Genres
(1985). The Question Of Popular Genres. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 55-61
Performance and Popular Culture
ion from reality (the work of art) and the self of the performer. This will, I think, help us to see how the juggler and the actor are alike. The actor is himself, playing a part which is an abstraction from nature created by the dramatist; but his part playing is effective to the degree that it feels real to us. The juggler, too, is himself. he is performing a routine which has evolved over many years, but which also represents a transformation …
Ringer to Sheehy to Pirsig: The “Greening” of American Ideals of Success
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
The New Mythology of Crime
best selling novel and film of the late 1960's and early 1970's was Mario Puzo's Its impact has been so great over 10 million copies of the book sold in little over three years, millions of movie admissions and still running after several years that one doesn't need much prescience to predict that this work will be a major turning point in the evolution of popular literature, perhaps comparable to the significance of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes…
Custer and the Epic of Defeat
Journal Article Custer and the Epic of Defeat. By Bruce A. Rosenberg. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974. xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $13.50.) Get access John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 3, December 1975, Pages 708–709, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936264 Publish…
Myths of Violence in American Popular Culture
Myth, Symbol, and Formula
Some Reflections on the Videoculture of the Future
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture
Myths of Violence in American Popular Culture
The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
Myth, Symbol, and Formula
Popular Culture/Multiculturalism
Notes toward an Aesthetic of Popular Culture
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life
Journal Article Mystery Fiction and Modern Life. By R. Gordon Kelly. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-005-2. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-032-X.) Get access John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1640–1641, https://d…
The Question Of Popular Genres
(1985). The Question Of Popular Genres. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 55-61
Performance and Popular Culture
ion from reality (the work of art) and the self of the performer. This will, I think, help us to see how the juggler and the actor are alike. The actor is himself, playing a part which is an abstraction from nature created by the dramatist; but his part playing is effective to the degree that it feels real to us. The juggler, too, is himself. he is performing a routine which has evolved over many years, but which also represents a transformation …
The New Mythology of Crime
best selling novel and film of the late 1960's and early 1970's was Mario Puzo's Its impact has been so great over 10 million copies of the book sold in little over three years, millions of movie admissions and still running after several years that one doesn't need much prescience to predict that this work will be a major turning point in the evolution of popular literature, perhaps comparable to the significance of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes…
The Great Comic Book Heroes
Some Notes on the Structure of The Confidence-Man
NE OF THE significant phenomena of recent Melville criticism has been an awakening of interest in Confidence-Man.' book has been, until the last ten years or so, the least appreciated of Melville's longer works, for it is a most enigmatic novel and the range of disagreement over its meaning has been extreme.2 Little attention has been given to the book's structure, however, and in this article I shall develop a structural analysis that appears to…
Changing Ideas of Social Reform as Seen in Selected American Novels of the 1850's, the 1880's, and the Present Day
Professional Lives in America: Structure and Aspiration, 1750-1850
Apostles of the Self-Made Man
The Great Comic Book Heroes
The Spillane Phenomenon
The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature
Notes toward an Aesthetic of Popular Culture
The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature
John G. Cawelti, The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 5, Papers of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Number 2. Criticism and Culture (1972), pp. 115-123
Myth, Symbol, and Formula
Some Reflections on the Videoculture of the Future
The New Mythology of Crime
best selling novel and film of the late 1960's and early 1970's was Mario Puzo's Its impact has been so great over 10 million copies of the book sold in little over three years, millions of movie admissions and still running after several years that one doesn't need much prescience to predict that this work will be a major turning point in the evolution of popular literature, perhaps comparable to the significance of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes…
Custer and the Epic of Defeat
Journal Article Custer and the Epic of Defeat. By Bruce A. Rosenberg. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974. xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $13.50.) Get access John G. Cawelti John G. Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 3, December 1975, Pages 708–709, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936264 Publish…
Myths of Violence in American Popular Culture
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture
Movie-Made America
Journal Article Movie-Made America. By Robert Sklar. (New York: Random House, 1975. vii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access John Cawelti John Cawelti University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 2, September 1976, Pages 450–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899722 Published: 01 September 1976
Ringer to Sheehy to Pirsig: The “Greening” of American Ideals of Success
Performance and Popular Culture
ion from reality (the work of art) and the self of the performer. This will, I think, help us to see how the juggler and the actor are alike. The actor is himself, playing a part which is an abstraction from nature created by the dramatist; but his part playing is effective to the degree that it feels real to us. The juggler, too, is himself. he is performing a routine which has evolved over many years, but which also represents a transformation …
With the benefit of hindsight: Popular culture criticism
This essay identifies two traditional, quasi‐theological approaches to mass media criticism. One approach develops from a concern for the so‐called educational possibilities of mass media; the other develops from a philosophical commitment to media determinism. Ways of improving these two lines of criticism are suggested. The essay argues for a critical approach to mass media which employs the aesthetic or generic methods developed by popular cul…
Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture . David Marc
The Question Of Popular Genres
(1985). The Question Of Popular Genres. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 55-61
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Janice A. Radway
Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury
Gavin Stevens: Faulkner's Favorite
Earthly Thoughts on Divine Days
Leon Forrest's new novel Divine Days was published in the Spring of 1992. It is his fourth novel and both a considerable departure from, and, to use one of Forrest's own favorite terms and themes, a of his previous work. It is much longer than his first three novels and has a very different range of episodes and characters, but it is also a reinvention of Forest county1 and presents new insights into a variety of characters who have appeared in e…
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