The Western
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by James K. Folsom.
Contributors: Folsom, James K.
Series: Twentieth century views; A Spectrum book
Publisher: Prentice-Hall; Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall Trade
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; Western stories -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Description: Traces the purpose and significance of the cowboy and myth and examines the western as an established genre.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 176-177.
Table of contents: title: Davis, D.B. Ten-gallon hero.; title: Hutchinson, W.H. Virgins, villains, and varmints.; title: Dobie, J.F. Andy Adams, cowboy chronicler.; title: Mogen, D. Owen Wister's cowboy heroes.; title: Westbrook, M. The archetypal ethic of The Ox-Bow incident.; title: Fisher, V. The novelist and his background.; title: Fisher, V. and Holmes, O.L. Fact or fiction, the blend of history and legend.; title: Morley, S.G. Cowboy and gaucho fiction.; title: Folsom, J.K. English westerns.; title: Etulain, R.W. The American literary West and its interpreters.