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Item Details
Title:
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READING THE WEST
NEW ESSAYS ON THE LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST |
By: |
Michael Kowalewski (Editor), Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£37.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521565596 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521565592 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
23 February, 1996 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture No. 98 |
Pages: |
320 |
Description: |
A 1996 collection of essays exploring western American literature and the West in the American imagination. |
Synopsis: |
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination. |
Illustrations: |
5 b/w illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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