structure” as Turner popularized it with the tactics and goals of the computer games.
Aren’t there any computer games out there that deconstruct these overdone
“mythopoetic tropes” and envision something more all-embracing?
Finally, Jason Stacy’s paper “Containing Multitudes: Whitman, The Working
Class, and the Music of Moderate Reform” analyzes Whitman’s Leaves o f Grass
and its 1855 edition Introduction to explore the poet’s complex and ambiguous
ideas regarding working-class reforms. Stacey includes an historical summary of
both the radical and conservative debates centering around the issue in his detail
ing of Whitman’s “symphonic vision. ”
Readers may notice that I’ve been hinting at a more interactive approach to
our intimate journal in this issue. The editorial staff has had the brilliant idea of
opening up our world to yet more opinions. So many of us don’t have the time (or
the AudreyT^...) to create an entire article for publication, but why not our own
Letters to the Pop Culture Audience? Sends us your thoughts, your musings, your
tirades on our articles (and “our” Introduction...) and in the next issue we will
incorporate yet another aspect of Popular Culture - The Responses. Once again,
PCR promises to tempt and torment, amuse and rile, but mostly, to inspire, its
eclectic audience. Read on!
Juli Barry, Ph.D.
Associate Editor
Popular Culture Review
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