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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Sigelman, Lee ; Yanarella, Ernest J
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| Publisher: |
Praeger
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| Date: |
01/13/1988
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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