Political Mythology and Popular Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780313259760 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 210 str.

Ernest J. Yanarella; Lee Sigelman; Ernest J. Yanarella

Opis

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.