The Godfather and American Culture: How the Coreleones Became "Our Gang"

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Popular Fiction Criticism and American Careers
Popular Fiction: Taste, Sentiment, and the Culture of Criticism	p. 19
Mario Puzo: An American Writer's Career	p. 51
Reading The Godfather: Critical Strategies and Theoretical Models
Bakhtin and Puzo: Authority as the Family Business	p. 87
The Godfather and the Ethnic Ensemble	p. 107
Barthes and Puzo: The Authority of the Signifier	p. 149
Positioning The Godfather in American Narrative Study
The Godfather and Melodrama: Authorizing the Corleones as American Heroes	p. 173
The Corleones as "Our Gang": The Godfather Interrogated by Doctorow's Ragtime	p. 209
The American Inadvertent Epic: The Godfather Copied	p. 229
The Godfather Sung by The Sopranos	p. 253
Conclusion	p. 291
Notes	p. 299
Works Cited	p. 317
Index	p. 327
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