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The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Reading the West
• Subtitle: New Essays on the Literature of the American West
• Author: Albert Gelpi, Michael Kowalewski, Ross Posnock
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780521565592
• ISBN: 0521565596
• ID: 02035436
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 273 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. February 1996

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