A companion to the literature and culture of the American West /
"Few geographical regions of the United States have been more glamorized, mythologized -- and misunderstood -- than the American West. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents an in depth and highly detailed exploration of historic and contemporary cultural expres...
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| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Σειρά: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
74. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Front Matter
- Introduction. Imagining the West / Nicolas S Witschi
- Regions and Histories. Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780₆1850 / Edward Watts
- Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West / Peter J Blodgett
- The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals / Tara Penry
- A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833₆1928 / Nina Baym
- Literary Cultures of the American Southwest / Daniel Worden
- Literary Cartography of the Great Plains / Susan Naramore Maher
- The Literary Northern Rockies as / O Alan Weltzien
- North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature / Eric Heyne
- Chronotopes of the Asian American West / Hsuan L Hsu
- African American Literature and Culture and the American West / Michael K Johnson
- Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztl̀n, and the Cosmic Race / John L Escobedo
- Writing the Indigenous West / Kathleen Washburn
- Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-Wides, and McMansions / Nancy Cook
- Postcolonial West / Alex Hunt
- New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest / Krista Comer
- Varieties and Forms. What we talk about when we talk about Western Art / Brian W Dippie
- ₃All Hat and No Cattle₄: Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth-Century Western American Fiction / Gary Scharnhorst
- The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry / Barbara Barney Nelson
- ₃The Wind Blew them Away₄: Folksinging the West, 1880₆1930 / David Fenimore
- Autobiography / Gioia Woods
- Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond / Cathryn Halverson
- The Apple doesn't fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism / Hal Crimmel
- Detective Fiction / Nicolas S Witschi
- The American Western Film / Corey K Creekmur
- Post-Western Cinema / Neil Campbell
- Issues, Themes, Case Studies. America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West / Jefferson D Slagle
- Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the / Karen E Ramirez
- Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of / Chadwick Allen
- The Nuclear Southwest / Audrey Goodman
- Ranging over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy / Bonney MacDonald
- The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production / Susan Kollin
- Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas / Stephen Tatum, Nathaniel Lewis
- Index.
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments.
- Note on Contributors.
- List of Illustrations
- Part I: Introduction.
- 1 Imagining The West (Nicolas S. Witschi).
- Part II: Regions and Histories.
- 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780-1850 (Edward Watts).
- 3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (Peter Blodgett).
- 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Tara Penry).
- 5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833-1928 (Nina Baym).
- 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (Daniel Worden).
- 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (Susan Naremore Maher).
- 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (O. Alan Weltzien).
- 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (Eric Heyne).
- 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (Hsuan L. Hsu).
- 11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (Michael K. Johnson).
- 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race (John L. Escobedo).
- 13 Native American Literature and Culture of the American West (Kathleen Washburn).
- 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-Wides and McMansions (Nancy Cook).
- 15 Postcolonial West (Alex Hunt).
- 16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (Krista Comer).
- Part III: Varieties and Forms.
- 17 What We Talk about When We Talk about Western Art (Brian W. Dippie).
- 18 "All Hat and No Cattle": Romance, Realism, and Late-19th-Century Western American Fiction (Gary Scharnhorst).
- 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (Barbara Barney Nelson).
- 20 "The Wind Blew Them Away": Folksinging the West, 1880-1930 (David Fenimore).
- 21 Autobiography (Gioia Woods).
- 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cathryn Halverson).
- 23 The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (Hal Crimmel).
- 24 Detective Fiction (Nicolas S. Witschi).
- 25 The American Western Film (Corey Creekmur).
- 26 Post-Western Cinema (Neil Campbell).
- Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies.
- 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (Jefferson Slagle).
- 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (Karen E. Ramirez).
- 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (Chadwick Allen).
- 30 The Nuclear Southwest (Audrey Goodman).
- 31 Ranging Over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (Bonney MacDonald).
- 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (Susan Kollin).
- 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis).
