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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

Witschi, Nicolas S. (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

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1. Auflage April 2011
578 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8733-6
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents an in depth exploration of historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. A series of illuminating essays by literary and cultural scholars reveals the complexity of the many "wests" in our imagination and reality. Contributions explore such topics as women's frontier narratives, classic westerns of fiction and film, Native-American pride, cowboy poetry, and the L.A. and Seattle music scenes. The Companion offers a fully realized portrait of the depth and complexity of cultural expressions that continue to emerge from the American west.

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.

* Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west
* Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions
* Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities
* Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies

Acknowledgments

Note on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Part I: Introduction

Part II: Regions and Histories

Part III: Varieties and Forms

Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies
Nicolas S. Witschi is Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of English, Western Michigan University. He is the author of Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature (2002), a Western Writers Series monograph on Alonzo "Old Block" Delano (2006), and various articles and essays on Mary Austin, John Muir, Sinclair Lewis, and Henry James.

N. S. Witschi, Western Michigan University, USA