The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American FictionOhio University Press, 2002 - 236 halaman With much recent scholarship polarizing frontier novels into "popular" and "literary" camps, The Word Rides Again challenges the critical orthodoxy that such works have little in common, arguing instead that formulaic Western fictions can subtly (and even subversively) share cultural concerns with more highbrow brethren. Each chapter focuses on a writer who has traditionally been classified as either popular or artistic, reading a representative fictional work against prevailing scholarly trends. In this manner, Bret Harte's sentimental stories become gender-bending experiments in which women assume male roles and even enjoy lesbian relationships. Owen Wister's The Virginian is transmuted from a misogynistic diatribe into a complex meditation on the peculiarly American relation of violence to male identity. And even Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, rather than the apotheosis of a religious leader, becomes a somewhat standard version of the popular frontier story. |
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... domestic authority have no meaning . In order for civilization's advance to resonate , it must be ad- vancing against something else — in this case , the very real brutality of the waning frontier . Not every Western fiction at the time ...
... Domestic fictions is setting : Westerns take place out- of - doors and beyond the constraints of “ feminine virtue , ” while Domestic , or senti- mental , novels occur largely in the home , with ideas of family acting as a locus for the ...
... domestic experience , a fact that may have fundamentally impacted the way he thought about and presented family life ... domestic matters in his fiction , then , may be his attempt to compensate for his family's literal absence or , more ...
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