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ISBN: 0070942129 Year: 1969 Publisher: London MacGraw-Hill
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Year: 1969 Publisher: London-New York-Toronto McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 9780803226647 0803226640 9786613129215 0803235437 1283129213 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lincoln London University of Nebraska Press
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ISBN: 110713451X 128016140X 0511120818 1139148370 0511061021 0511054696 0511308299 0511485522 0511069480 9780511061028 9780511069482 9780511120817 9780521816670 052181667X 9786610161409 6610161402 9781139148375 9780511054693 9780511308291 9780511485527 9780521093422 0521093422 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press
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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.
American literature --- Novelists, American --- Domestic fiction, American --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Western stories --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Family violence in literature. --- Women pioneers in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- American novelists --- History and criticism. --- Homes and haunts --- West (U.S.) --- Intellectual life. --- In literature. --- Family violence in literature --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- Marriage in literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Violence in literature --- Women pioneers in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- National characteristics [American ] --- West [U.S.] in literature --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stegner, Wallace Earle --- Didion, Joan --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Grey, Zane --- Wister, Owen --- Turner, Frederick Jackson
ISBN: 1280465859 9786610465859 0803203993 9780803203990 0803224109 9780803224100 9781280465857 6610465851 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press
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In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the "real" authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the West. The fifteen essays collected here apply contemporary critical and cultural theory to western literary history, Native American literature and identities, the visual West, and the imagining of place. Ranging geographically from the Canadian Prairies to Buena Park's Entertainment Corridor in Southern California, and chronologically from early tourist narratives to contemporary environmental writing, True West challenges many assumptions we make about western writing and opens the door to an important new chapter in western literary history and cultural criticism.
Realism in literature. --- American literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Historiography. --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- West [U.S.] in literature --- Realism in literature --- Eastman, Charles Alexander --- Long, Sylvester --- Curtis, Edward S. --- Remington, Frederic --- Bass, Rick --- Stegner, Wallace Earle --- Kittredge, William --- Williams, Terry Tempest
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