Updating the Literary WestTCU Press, 1997 - 1031 strani "Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth." The editors of the Literary History of the American West (TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes Updating the Literary West, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece. In the ten years since publication of LHAW, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary stream. A variety of cultural viewpoints have developed, along with new tactics for literary study. New authors have risen to prominence, and the range of subjects has changed and widened. Updating the Literary West looks at topics ranging from western classics to cowboys and Cadillacs and considers children's literature, ethnicity, environmental writing, gender issues and other topics in which change has been rapid since publication of LHAW. This volume again affirms the West's literary legitimacy--status hard earned by the Western Literary Association--and the lasting place of popular western writing as part of the growing and changing literary--and American--experience. An excellent reference for a wide range of readers and an invaluable resource for scholars and libraries. Selected list of contributors: James Maguire Fred Erisman Susan J. Rosowski Gerald Haslam Tom Pilkington A. Carl Bredahl Richard Slotkin John G. Cawelti Robert F. Gish Ann Ronald Mick McAllister |
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Reperceiving Ethnicity in Western American Literature | 35 |
Western American Literature and the Canon | 44 |
James H Maguire | 73 |
Early Western Literary Women | 82 |
Houston | 98 |
The Literature of the Mining Camps | 99 |
Childrens Literature In and of the West | 117 |
American Indian Autobiography | 132 |
John Nichols | 489 |
Barbara Kingsolver | 504 |
Mark Busby | 520 |
N Scott Momaday | 537 |
Simon J Ortiz | 547 |
R G Vliet | 561 |
Elmer Kelton | 580 |
Rolando Hinojosa | 595 |
PreLewis and Clark Exploration Narratives of Western North | 150 |
RanchLife Narratives and Poems | 162 |
Diaries Letters and Reminiscences of | 177 |
Joaquin Miller | 204 |
Susan J Rosowski | 217 |
The Popular West | 218 |
Glen A Love | 225 |
Bruce Barcott | 232 |
Michael Powell | 239 |
Nevada | 246 |
Alaska | 252 |
The Pacific Northwest as a CrossBorder Region | 262 |
Ursula K Le Guin | 278 |
California | 294 |
John P OGrady | 313 |
Robert Hass | 329 |
Joan Didion | 346 |
Maxine Hong Kingston | 360 |
Luis Valdez | 379 |
Richard Rodriguez | 394 |
Michael Kowalewski | 401 |
Ella Leffland | 417 |
The Hollywood Novel | 434 |
Tom Pilkington | 463 |
Walter McDonald | 608 |
Larry McMurtry | 628 |
The Midwest and the Great Plains | 641 |
The Last Dozen Years | 658 |
Recent Research on the Works of Ole E Rölvaag | 670 |
Update | 685 |
Midwestern Autobiographical Nonfiction | 701 |
Contemporary Fiction of the Great Plains | 720 |
Ivan Doig | 736 |
A Carl Bredahl | 753 |
Thomas McGuane | 772 |
Rocky Mountain Nature Writing | 793 |
James Welch | 808 |
A Remembrance | 827 |
Frank Waters | 854 |
Christine Bold | 863 |
TwentyFive Years After | 883 |
Women Writers of Popular Westerns | 898 |
African Americans and the Popular West | 916 |
European Popular Westerns | 932 |
Zane Grey | 946 |
What Is Happening in the West Today | 961 |
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