A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West - nouveau livre

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781444396584
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1444396587
Date de parution: 2011
Editeur: Wiley

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ISBN/EAN: 9781444396584

ISBN - Autres types d'écriture:
1-4443-9658-7, 978-1-4443-9658-4
Autres types d'écriture et termes associés:
Auteur du livre: witschi, dougherty
Titre du livre: the american west, companion literature

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Données de l'éditeur

Auteur: Nicolas S. Witschi
Titre: A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Editeur: Wiley-Blackwell; John Wiley & Sons
576 Pages
Date de parution: 2011-05-03
Langue: Anglais
35,99 € (DE)
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EA; E101; E-Book; Nonbooks, PBS / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; American Literature; Amerikanische Literatur; Literature; Literaturwissenschaft; USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte; Amerikanische Literatur; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada); Amerikanisches Englisch; BC; BB

Notes on Contributors viii Part I: Introduction 1 1 Imagining the West 3 Nicolas S. Witschi Part II: Regions and Histories 11 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction,1780-1850 13 Edward Watts 3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and theCulture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West 29 Peter J. Blodgett 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 48 Tara Penry 5 A History of American Women's Western Books,1833-1928 63 Nina Baym 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest 81 Daniel Worden 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains 98 Susan Naramore Maher 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place 115 O. Alan Weltzien 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature130 Eric Heyne 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West 145 Hsuan L. Hsu 11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West161 Michael K. Johnson 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and theCosmic Race 177 John L. Escobedo 13 Writing the Indigenous West 191 Kathleen Washburn 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-wides, andMcMansions 213 Nancy Cook 15 Postcolonial West 229 Alex Hunt 16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest 244 Krista Comer Part III: Varieties and Forms 261 17 What We Talk About When We Talk About Western Art 263 Brian W. Dippie 18 "All Hat and No Cattle": Romance, Realism, andLate Nineteenth-Century Western American Fiction 281 Gary Scharnhorst 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry 297 Barbara Barney Nelson 20 "The Wind Blew Them Away": Folksinging the West,1880-1930 316 David Fenimore 21 Autobiography 336 Gioia Woods 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature,Early Twentieth Century and Beyond 353 Cathryn Halverson 23 The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree: WesternAmerican Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism 367 Hal Crimmel 24 Detective Fiction 380 Nicolas S. Witschi 25 The American Western Film 395 Corey K. Creekmur 26 Post-Western Cinema 409 Neil Campbell Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies 425 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West 427 Jefferson D. Slagle 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native AmericanPerformance in the Ramona Outdoor Play 443 Karen E. Ramirez 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger 462 Chadwick Allen 30 The Nuclear Southwest 483 Audrey Goodman 31 Ranging over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as AdaptiveStrategy 499 Bonney MacDonald 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and LiteraryProduction 514 Susan Kollin 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas 528 Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis Index 547