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Updating the Literary West
出版
TCU Press
, 1997
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / American / Regional
ISBN
0875651755
9780875651750
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s2jHc_wmU3sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to
Updating the Literary West
, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth."
The editors of the
Literary History of the American West
(TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes
Updating the Literary West
, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece.
In the ten years since publication of
LHAW
, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary stream. A variety of cultural viewpoints have developed, along with new tactics for literary study. New authors have risen to prominence, and the range of subjects has changed and widened.
Updating the Literary West
looks at topics ranging from western classics to cowboys and Cadillacs and considers children's literature, ethnicity, environmental writing, gender issues and other topics in which change has been rapid since publication of
LHAW
. This volume again affirms the West's literary legitimacy--status hard earned by the Western Literary Association--and the lasting place of popular western writing as part of the growing and changing literary--and American--experience. An excellent reference for a wide range of readers and an invaluable resource for scholars and libraries.
Selected list of contributors:
James Maguire
Fred Erisman
Susan J. Rosowski
Gerald Haslam
Tom Pilkington
A. Carl Bredahl
Richard Slotkin
John G. Cawelti
Robert F. Gish
Ann Ronald
Mick McAllister