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Title: | The Outlaw and The Popular /Folk Hero: A Review Article | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John S (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10409 | Abstract: | This is a generous and powerful treatment of the authority-defiant figure across many cultures and centuries. While Graham Seal's major work to date has been largely concerned with medieval England and colonial Australia, this is a fine and world-ranging survey, and a study presented with a compassionate identification and with a pleasing wit. It is, quite simply, Australia's finest national and comparative volume in the global scholarship of the folkloric discipline. What more is there to say about outlaw heroes? A great deal, it turns out. While many might have considered the tradition of the outlawed hero to have died out, it has not only endured, but has evolved into viable new forms; the cultural processes that produce and contain the outlaw hero as a viable model of resistance are not only ancient, extensive and deep, but are also socially perilous. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Folklore, v.26, p. 59-71 | Publisher: | Australian Folklore Association, Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 0819-0852 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160802 Environmental Sociology 160399 Demography not elsewhere classified 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940403 Criminal Justice 950503 Understanding Australias Past 940401 Civil Justice |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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