Science, Bread, and Circuses: Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses

by Gregory Schrempp

In Science, Bread, and Circuses, Gregory Schrempp brings a folkloristic viewpoint to the topic of popular science, calling attention to the persistence of folkloric form, idiom, and worldview within the increasingly important dimension of popular consciousness defined by the impact of science.

Schrempp considers specific examples of texts in which science interpreters employ folkloric tropes-myths, legends, epics, proverbs, spectacles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874219698
• ISBN13: 9780874219692
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 19 years and up