miker wrote:
"Kind of makes [do writers glorify vioence?] sound like a
question of a contemporary nature, doesn't it? It is. Very
fashionable nowadays to be indignant about violence in
literature. Violence, and lots of it, has been a literary
staple since its beginning."
Not just contemporary. As long as there has been violent
entertainment, there have been others complaining about it,
often with class overtones
(it's terrible that Shakespeare puts so much violence in his
plays to pander to those in the pit, for instance). Closer to
home, it's hard to escape the class elitism in much of the
contemporary criticism of Spillane, in fact, the whole
anti-mass culture crusade of that time.
Mark
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