Melody (Hrsg.) Graulich

Reading the Virginian in the New West

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Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and uses Wister's novel as a lens for studying what the next century of western writing and reading will bring. The contributors address Wister's life and travels, the novel's influence on and handling of gender and race issues, and its illustrations and various retellings on stage, film, and television as points of depar… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tatum, Stephen (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8032-7104-3
EAN: 9780803271043
Produktnummer: 1580084
Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 300 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.7 cm 431 g
Gewicht: 431

Über den Autor

Melody Graulich is a professor of English at Utah State University and the editor of Western American Literature. She won the 2014 Mary C. Turpie Award from the American Studies Association. Stephen Tatum teaches in the Department of English at the University of Utah and is the author of Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide.