Reading the West : new essays on the literature of the American West / edited by Michael Kowalewski, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis.Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: x, 304 p ; 24 cmISBN: 0-521-45061-6; 0-521-56559-6.Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 98Dewey: 810.9/3278, 20Contents note: Region, power, place / William W. Bevis Burros and mustangs: literary evolutionism and the wilderness West / David Rains Wallace The Literature of loneliness: understanding the letters and diaries of the American West / Shannon Applegate Quoting the wicked wit of the West: frontier reportage and western vernacular / Michael Kowalewski Bierstadt's settings, Harte's plots / Lee Mitchell Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey / Peter Wild Revisionist western classics / Thomas J. Lyon Molly's truthtelling, or, Jean Stafford rewrites the western / Susan J. Rosowski Borders, frontiers, and mountains: mapping the history of 'U.S. Hispanic literature' / Margaret García Davidson The Return of the native: the politics of identity in American Indian fiction of the West / Philip Burnham Regionalism makes good: the San Francisco renaissance / Linda Hamalian 'The Circle almost circled': some notes on California's fiction / James D. Houston Fighting the religion of the present: western motifs in the first wave of Asian American plays / Misha Berson Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.Subject - Topical Name: Littérature américaine Histoire et critique | Westerns (littérature) | Littérature américaine, Etats-Unis (ouest) Histoire et critique Subject - Geographical Name: Etats-Unis (ouest) -- dans la littérature | Etats-Unis (ouest), Vie intellectuelleItem type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prêt normal | BU Chevreul 4ème étage : Langues | Anglais | 810.93 KOW (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 037457332 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index
Region, power, place / William W. Bevis Burros and mustangs: literary evolutionism and the wilderness West / David Rains Wallace The Literature of loneliness: understanding the letters and diaries of the American West / Shannon Applegate Quoting the wicked wit of the West: frontier reportage and western vernacular / Michael Kowalewski Bierstadt's settings, Harte's plots / Lee Mitchell Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey / Peter Wild Revisionist western classics / Thomas J. Lyon Molly's truthtelling, or, Jean Stafford rewrites the western / Susan J. Rosowski Borders, frontiers, and mountains: mapping the history of 'U.S. Hispanic literature' / Margaret García Davidson The Return of the native: the politics of identity in American Indian fiction of the West / Philip Burnham Regionalism makes good: the San Francisco renaissance / Linda Hamalian 'The Circle almost circled': some notes on California's fiction / James D. Houston Fighting the religion of the present: western motifs in the first wave of Asian American plays / Misha Berson