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Political Mythology and Popular Fiction

Political Mythology and Popular Fiction

Yanarella, Ernest J.
Sigelman, Lee
Yanarella, Ernest J.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Political Science, Book 197

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313259763
ISBN13: 9780313259760
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jan 13 1988
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.62
Language: English
A fascinating contribution to the scholarship of both political science and literature, this book explores eight major genres of contemporary popular fiction generally assumed to be essentially devoid of political content--children's novels, Westerns, middle-class fiction, historical novels, small-town Americana, sports novels, American war fiction, and science fiction. By uncovering the often covert mythical themes and cultural symbols hidden in the plot formulas of these works--many of them bestsellers--the essays illustrate the debt of mass-market authors to cultural and political traditions that reach back to the origins of the American Republic.

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