Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature

by Thomas Reed Whissen

Book Overview

Question: What does Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) have in common with Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)? Answer: Actually a great deal. They are classics of cult fiction and share many attributes. Cult fiction is a reader-created genre. A cult book can appear within any type of literary genre--for instance, romance, mystery, science fiction--but will achieve cult status only on the basis of reader response. It...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031326550X
• ISBN13: 9780313265501
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"