The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction

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Ohio University Press, 2002 - 236 strani

With much recent scholarship polarizing frontier novels into "popular" and "literary" camps, The Word Rides Again challenges the critical orthodoxy that such works have little in common, arguing instead that formulaic Western fictions can subtly (and even subversively) share cultural concerns with more highbrow brethren. Each chapter focuses on a writer who has traditionally been classified as either popular or artistic, reading a representative fictional work against prevailing scholarly trends. In this manner, Bret Harte's sentimental stories become gender-bending experiments in which women assume male roles and even enjoy lesbian relationships. Owen Wister's The Virginian is transmuted from a misogynistic diatribe into a complex meditation on the peculiarly American relation of violence to male identity. And even Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, rather than the apotheosis of a religious leader, becomes a somewhat standard version of the popular frontier story.

The Word Rides Again represents a significant departure from more traditional studies of frontier literature. It reaffirms the continuum between popular and literary texts and explores the ways that frontier novels have echoed, endorsed, and extended each other from the inception of the genre.

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The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction
J. David Stevens
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J. David Stevens is an assistant professor in the English department at Seton Hall University. He has published numerous articles on American and Canadian regional literatures, with a special interest in the West.

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NaslovThe Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction
AvtorJ. David Stevens
UrednikJ. David Stevens
Izdajailustrirana
ZaložnikOhio University Press, 2002
Vir izvirnikaUniverza v Michiganu
Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis29 feb 2008
ISBN0821414178, 9780821414170
Dolžina236 strani
  
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