Mark Asquith

Lost in the New West

Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane

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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 sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy.Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-4954-6
EAN: 9781501349546
Produktnummer: 37613888
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: PDF

Über den Autor

Mark Asquith is the author of Reading the Novels of John Williams: A Flaw of Light (2018); The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx's Short Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014); Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards: A Readers' Guide (Bloomsbury, 2009); and Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music (2005) in addition to numerous articles on 19th-century English and contemporary American literature. He holds a PhD from UCL, the University of London, UK.