Unsettling the literary West : authenticity and authorship /

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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts-and thus of the very nature-of western writing. Why...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lewis, Nathaniel, 1962-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Colección:Postwestern horizons.
Temas:
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Western stories > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Littérature américaine > États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature western > Histoire et critique.
Vie des pionniers dans la littérature.
États-Unis (Ouest) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Intellectual life
Literature
Western stories
Schrijvers.
Amerikaans.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Vie intellectuelle.
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Legacy of Authenticity
  • 1. Truth or Consequences: Western Literature in the 1830s
  • 2. Fact and Fiction: Canonical Simulations
  • 3. Authentic Reproduction: The Picturesque Joaquin Miller
  • 4. The Trap of Authenticity: Frank Norris and Western Authorship
  • 5. Coming Out of the Country: Environmental Constructivism in Western Nature Writing
  • 6. Inside Out in the Postmodern West
  • Epilogue: Territorial Expansion.

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