Westernness
Subtitle: a meditation
By: Alan Williamson.
Series: Under the sign of nature
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.; Art, American -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.; West (U.S.) -- In literature.; West (U.S.) -- In art.
Description: "A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner. An engaging and astute readers and observer, Alan Williamson uses his poetic lens to examine the new connections, notably with the Far East, that have been forged in the West, but also the fear, anxiety, and sense of cultural vacancy that western artists have had to overcome in confronting their new landscape, much as the writers of the American Renaissance did a century earlier."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.