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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Meldrum, Barbara Howard. Under the sun. Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., 1985 (OCoLC)564849782 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Howard Meldrum |
| ISBN: | 0878753036 9780878753031 |
| OCLC Number: | 13370293 |
| Description: | vi, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Barbara Howard Meldrum -- [Reality, myth, and the West] -- Myth, reality, and the American frontier / Max Westbrook -- The West as archetype / Harold P. Simonson -- [Writing about the West : history, realism, and myth] -- Historical realism and the American West : the example of Charles Neider's The authentic death of Hendry Jones / Stephen Tatum -- Men, women, and madness : pioneer Plains literature / June O. Underwood -- Western myth, Mormon society / L.L. Lee -- Romance without women : the sterile fiction of the American West / Madelon Heatherington -- [Mythologizing the West] -- Mythic reality : structure and theme in Cather's O pioneers / Ann Moseley -- Alien myth and natural myth in the poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril / James R. Saucerman -- Classical myth versus realism in Crane's "The bride comes to Yellow Sky" / Chester L. Wolford -- Realism and romance in the western stories of Stephen Crane / Michael J. Collins -- The illustrator as writer : Mary Hallock Foote and the myth of the West / Shelley Armitage -- Images and icons : the fiction and photography of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven -- [Beyond myth] -- Beyond myth : Welch's Winter in the blood / Jack Brenner. |
| Responsibility: | by Barbara Howard Meldrum. |
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- American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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