An edition of The novel of the American West
(1980)
The novel of the American West
by John R. Milton
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The chief concern of this study is what the author calls the capital W Western novel -- the serious work of literature which is as well written and as significant as the major novels of any other region, but which has gone relatively unnoticed or has been misunderstood by critics because it has been confused generically with the lowercase w western: the popular, formula western hacked out for the mass market. - Jacket flap.
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The novel of the American West
1980, University of Nebraska Press
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0803209800 9780803209800
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The popular or formula Western
The writer's West
The evolution of the Western novel
Vardis Fisher : the struggle of rationalism
The historical inheritance : Guthrie and Manfred
Walter van Tilburg Clark : the Western attitude
Harvey Fergusson and the Spanish Southwest
Intuition and the dance of life : Frank Waters
The distant music : variations on Western realism
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 325-332.
Includes index.
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