LITERARY LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Literary Landscapes of the American West, 1872-1968
This dissertation investigates why literary dreams of the West have been categorically dismissed as mythical.
Literary Landscapes of the American West - Prof. Jim Proctor
It is at once a vast expanse of land with a huge variety of geology and ecology and the setting for cultural narratives that inform some ...
LITERARY LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1872-1968
Writing a dissertation is no feat for a Lone Ranger. In completing this project, I have depended on the enthusiastic cheerleading and patient support of more ...
Literary Landscapes of the American West - Prof. Jim Proctor
Literary Landscapes of the American West ... The American West is both a geographic location and a cultural phenomenon. It is a vast expanse of land with a huge ...
Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America The West
Western literature captures the spirit of the half of the continent beyond the Mississippi River, a landscape that consists of many regions--the High Plains ...
This chapter will analyse critical perceptions of representations of landscape by Native and non-Native writers and critics.
The Western Sublime: Majestic Landscapes of the American West
The Western Sublime: Majestic Landscapes of the American West examines works of art of the American West that interpret, reinvent, and transform the idea of the ...
Landscapes of the New West | Krista Comer - UNC Press
Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both ...
In this, it reflects several of the distinctive elements of Western history: federal land possession, the continued presence of native peoples, and the desire ...
Literary Landscapes: A Future for Post-Frontier Regionalism in ...
Landscape portrayals—literary, visual, or otherwise—serve as recognizable features at the core of American Western iconography and aesthetics.
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary ...
Western American Literature: A Journal of Literary, Cultural, and ...
Since 1965, Western American Literature has been the leading peer-reviewed journal in the literary and cultural study of the North American West.
10 Best Books Set in the American West - Publishers Weekly
FREE E-NEWSLETTERS · 1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - · 2. Winter in the Blood by James Welch · 3. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by ...
Six Western Landscape Novels - FSG Work in Progress
Reading List · Zane Grey, Wildfire · Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop · Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses · Ron Hansen, Atticus.
New Literary Portraits of the American West - Peter Lang Verlag
This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Recent ...
Jeff Corwin: Landscapes of the American West
ARTIST STATEMENT I think there's an assumption that a photographer begins their artistic work first and then if there is a commercial…
Re-imagining the Modern American West | UAPress
He covers historians from Frederick Jackson Turner to Earl Pomeroy and Patricia Nelson Limerick, and artists from Frederic Remington and Charles Russell to ...
Wyckoff's West - Montana State University
MSU geography professor William Wyckoff has written six books, most about the changing landscape of the American West.
Notable Writers of the American West & the Native ... - Salem Press
Notable Writers of the American West & the Native American Experience is a collection with broad appeal. ... But there is more to this collection than that, for ...
The American West and the literature of environmental consciousness
Cultural geographer William Wyckoff recounts this well-known history, explaining that mainstream ideas of Western American landscapes have often worked hand in ...