VL page 77 Sasha & Turn.2

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 28 20:11:41 CDT 2003



To be sure. these characters have not disappeared from the
literature of advanced industrial society. but they survive
essentially transformed. The vamp, the national hero, the
beatnik. the neurotic housewife, the gangster, the star, the
charismatic tycoon perform a function very different from and
even contrary to that of their cultural predecessors. They are
no longer images of another way of life but rather freaks or
types of the same life. serving as an affirmation rather than
negation of the established order. 

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