Posted on 05/05/07
Popposites may attract
Born in Flames:Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop ApocalypsesBy Howard HamptonHarvard University Press,473 pages, $33.95Howard Hampton, frenetic, voraciously intellectual pop-culture critic, likes to compare and contrast seemingly incongruous subject matter. In this collection of his reviews and essays, Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses, he matches Natural Born Killers with Forrest Gump, British punk band the Mekons with Marxist philosopher Fredric Jameson, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with D. H. Lawrence.
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