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Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 98) - Hardcover
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The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and Reading the West examines the bases of that fascination. These critical essays by writers, independent scholars, and critics on the literature of the American West showcase new ways of reading and understanding western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work that has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but also with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.
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The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination. These critical essays by writers, independent scholars, and critics on the literature of the American West showcase new ways of reading and understanding western writing.
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Reading the West is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars, and critics on the literature of the American West. The essays in this volume enrich our understanding of western writing by reemphasizing the importance of 'place' in literary studies.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0521450616
- ISBN 13 9780521450614
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages319
- EditorKowalewski Michael
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