A Literary History Of The American West
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A Literary History of the American West
Author | : Western Literature Association (U.S.) |
Publsiher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 1408 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 087565021X |
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Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.
The American Western in Canadian Literature
Author | : Joel Deshaye |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : Canada, Western |
ISBN | : 1773852671 |
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The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary phenomenon. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
Literature of the American West
Author | : Greg Lyons |
Publsiher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0205324614 |
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Literature of the American West is an anthology of "literary" and popular fiction; historical personal narratives; contemporary reflective essays; author biographies, and critical perspectives on the images, literatures, and films of the American West. This distinctive book will enliven and deepen readers' understanding and appreciation of the literature, values, ideals, and perceptions of the American West. The book moves beyond the traditional literary canon to incorporate pop culture, historical, multi-ethnic, and multi-media approaches. Included are stories from popular Western authors such as Zane Grey and Dorothy Johnson, as well as Native American authors such as N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. This book also includes critical reading questions, writing suggestions, and relevant photographs and paintings that facilitate analyzing the works within the book as well as our own perceptions of the American West. For those interested the study and appreciation of the literature of the American West.
Narrating the American West
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781621968672 |
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A Literary History of the American West
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : OCLC:40717240 |
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Hypertext and PDF version of book about the literature of the American West.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West
Author | : Steven Frye |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107095373 |
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This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Re imagining the Modern American West
Author | : Richard W. Etulain |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816516839 |
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Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Author | : Nicolas S. Witschi |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781118652510 |
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies