The other, the godfather: A new historicist reading on Mario Puzo's novel, the godfather

• Main Authors: Abel, Mark Alexander Ong, Puzo, Mario
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Puzo, Mario, 1920-1939 The godfather; Fiction > History and criticism; Plots (Drama, novel, etc); Fiction > Social aspects
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9826
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examines the novel of Mario Puzo, The Godfather , in the light of the new historicist framework that the novel proposes an alternative order found in the mafia, that subverts the dominant social formation of Democratic Administration present in America's social context of the 1950�...