"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a …
"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a …
"Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentalit…
"Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentalit…
"Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentalit…
"This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. I…
Best ice cream west of the Mississippi / Angel Chaparro Sainz, -- Introduction. (A)Traveling West / Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo -- Trends in Western American studies, or the road as seen from the borrow pit / Nancy S. Cook -- Forging the future, forgetting the human, or what the L…
"This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. I…
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
"Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. He explores the early works of the Ten…
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions. Frye provides extensive readings of eac…