Cannibalization

business and politics. The element of pastiche has faded. What started as a form of parody has now outgrown the pulp styles and formulae it imitated and replaced them as superior, autonomous forms of story-telling. The survival of tradition The cannibalization of popular genres marked a return to heroes and structured narrative. But story and heroes had never disappeared. New Realism had been resisted for its elitist, theoretical approaches to fiction, and the more reader-friendly old realism of observation