Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

BANALITY AND PHONINESS IN J.D.SALINGER‘S THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

K. Kalavathi

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The term ‘Banality’ is one of a group of words including ‘trivial’ and ‘mundane’, whose modern history inscribes the disintegration of old ideals about the common people, the common place, and the common culture. It is only in the late eighteenth century that these words begin to accumulate their modern sense of the trite, the platitudinous, and the unoriginal. So it is a banal observation that if banality, like triviality, is an irritant that returns again and again to trouble cultural theory,  it is because the very concept is part of the modern history of taste, value, and critique of judgment, that constitutes the polemical field within which cultural studies takes issue with classical aesthetics.

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K. Kalavathi, BANALITY AND PHONINESS IN J.D.SALINGER'S THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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