New ground : western American narrative and the literary canon / A. Carl Bredahl, Jr.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1989.Description: xi, 195 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0807818542 (alk. paper)
- 9780807818541 (alk. paper)
- American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Middle West -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
- Western stories -- History and criticism
- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life
- West (U.S.) -- In literature
- Middle West -- In literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Canon (Literature)
- English literature American writers, 1945- - Critical studies
- PS271 .B74 1989
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Bibliography: p. 183-192.
Includes index.
Working within enclosure : the traditional canon -- The demands of space : the Westering imagination -- Divided narrative : Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson -- Hemingway : the body as matrix -- The big sky : searching for a new story -- High country in The ox-bow incident -- The conquest of Don Pedro : Harvey Fergusson's "Long rider" -- Wright Morris : living in the world -- Valuing surface : the imagination of Ivan Doig -- After words : the western movies of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.