Political Mythology and Popular Fiction
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- ISBN 9780313259760
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 1988
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
ERNEST J. YANARELLA is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.
LEE SIGELMAN is Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona.
