Western Writing
By: edited by Gerald W. Haslam
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780826303530
Subjects: American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Description: Wallace Stegner, George R. Stewart, J. Frank Dobie, Vardis Fisher, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Bernard DeVoto, David Lavender -- some of the most distinguished western novelists, historians, and critics -- explain what western literature is, what it has been, and its place in our national fantasies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Haslam, G. W. Introduction: Western writers and the national fantasy.; title: De Voto, B. Birth of an art.; title: Dobie, J. F. The writer and his region.; title: Stegner, W. On the writing of history.; title: Stewart, G. R. The regional approach to literature.; title: Guthrie, A. B. The historical novel.; title: Fisher, V. The novelist and his background.; title: Milton, J. R. The novel in the American West.; title: Taylor, J. G. The western short story.; title: Hutchinson, W. H. The "Western story" as literature.; title: Cawelti, J. G. Prolegomena to the Western.; title: Westbrook, M. The practical spirit: sacrality and the American West.; title: Lavender, D. The petrified West and the writer.