A companion to the literature and culture of the American West / / edited by Nicolas S. Witschi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9978 |
Collana | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Soggetto topico | American literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786613178398
1-78268-337-2 1-4443-9657-9 1-4443-9659-5 1-283-17839-7 1-4443-5064-1 1-4443-9658-7 |
Classificazione | LIT004020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note : Acknowledgments -- Note on contributors -- List of Illustrations -- pt. 1. Introduction: 1. Imagining the West / Nicolas S. Witschi -- pt. 2. Regions and histories: 2. Exploration, trading, trapping, travel, and early fiction, 1780-1850 / Edward Watts ; 3. Worlds of wonder and ambition : Gold Rush California and the culture of mining bonanzas in the North American West / Peter Blodgett ; 4. The literate West of nineteenth-century periodicals / Tara Penry ; 5. A history of American women's Western books, 1833-1928 / Nina Baym ; 6. Literary cultures of the American Southwest / Daniel Worden ; 7. Literary cartography of the Great Plains / Susan Naremore Maher ; 8. The literary Northern Rockies as The last best place / O. Alan Weltzien ; 9. North by northwest : the last frontier of Western literature / Eric Heyne ; 10. Chronotopes of the Asian American West / Hsuan L. Hsu ; 11. African American literature and culture and the American West / Michael K. Johnson ; 12. Mythical frontiers : Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the cosmic race / John L. Escobedo ; 13. Writing the indigenous West / Kathleen Washburn ; 14. Framing class in the rural West : cowboys, double-wides and McMansions / Nancy Cook ; 15. Postcolonial West / Alex Hunt ; 16. New West, urban and suburban spaces, postwest / Krista Comer -- pt. 3. Varieties and forms: 17. What we talk about when we talk about Western art / Brian W. Dippie ; 18. "All hat and no cattle" : romance, realism, and late-nineteenth-century Western American fiction / Gary Scharnhorst ; 19. The coyote nature of cowboy poetry / Barbara Barney Nelson ; 20. "The wind blew them away" : folksinging the West, 1880-1930 / David Fenimore ; 21. Autobiography / Gioia Woods ; 22. Housing the American West : Western women's literature, early twentieth century and beyond / Cathryn Halverson ; 23. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree : Western American literature and environmental literary criticism / Hal Crimmel ; 24. Detective fiction / Nicolas S. Witschi ; 25. The American Western film / Corey Creekmur ; 26 Post-Western cinema / Neil Campbell -- pt. 4. Issues, themes, case studies: 27. America unscripted : performing the wild West / Jefferson Slagle ; 28. Revising public memory in the American West : Native American performance in the Ramona outdoor play / Karen E. Ramirez ; 29. Omnimedia marketing : the case of The lone ranger / Chadwick Allen ; 30. The nuclear southwest / Audrey Goodman ; 31. Ranging over Stegner's arid west : mobility as adaptive strategy / Bonney MacDonald ; 32. The global west : temporality, spatial politics, and literary production / Susan Kollin ; 33. Tumbling dice : the problem of Las Vegas / Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis. |
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A companion to the literature and culture of the American West / / edited by Nicolas S. Witschi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9978 |
Collana | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Soggetto topico | American literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
9786613178398
1-78268-337-2 1-4443-9657-9 1-4443-9659-5 1-283-17839-7 1-4443-5064-1 1-4443-9658-7 |
Classificazione | LIT004020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note : Acknowledgments -- Note on contributors -- List of Illustrations -- pt. 1. Introduction: 1. Imagining the West / Nicolas S. Witschi -- pt. 2. Regions and histories: 2. Exploration, trading, trapping, travel, and early fiction, 1780-1850 / Edward Watts ; 3. Worlds of wonder and ambition : Gold Rush California and the culture of mining bonanzas in the North American West / Peter Blodgett ; 4. The literate West of nineteenth-century periodicals / Tara Penry ; 5. A history of American women's Western books, 1833-1928 / Nina Baym ; 6. Literary cultures of the American Southwest / Daniel Worden ; 7. Literary cartography of the Great Plains / Susan Naremore Maher ; 8. The literary Northern Rockies as The last best place / O. Alan Weltzien ; 9. North by northwest : the last frontier of Western literature / Eric Heyne ; 10. Chronotopes of the Asian American West / Hsuan L. Hsu ; 11. African American literature and culture and the American West / Michael K. Johnson ; 12. Mythical frontiers : Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the cosmic race / John L. Escobedo ; 13. Writing the indigenous West / Kathleen Washburn ; 14. Framing class in the rural West : cowboys, double-wides and McMansions / Nancy Cook ; 15. Postcolonial West / Alex Hunt ; 16. New West, urban and suburban spaces, postwest / Krista Comer -- pt. 3. Varieties and forms: 17. What we talk about when we talk about Western art / Brian W. Dippie ; 18. "All hat and no cattle" : romance, realism, and late-nineteenth-century Western American fiction / Gary Scharnhorst ; 19. The coyote nature of cowboy poetry / Barbara Barney Nelson ; 20. "The wind blew them away" : folksinging the West, 1880-1930 / David Fenimore ; 21. Autobiography / Gioia Woods ; 22. Housing the American West : Western women's literature, early twentieth century and beyond / Cathryn Halverson ; 23. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree : Western American literature and environmental literary criticism / Hal Crimmel ; 24. Detective fiction / Nicolas S. Witschi ; 25. The American Western film / Corey Creekmur ; 26 Post-Western cinema / Neil Campbell -- pt. 4. Issues, themes, case studies: 27. America unscripted : performing the wild West / Jefferson Slagle ; 28. Revising public memory in the American West : Native American performance in the Ramona outdoor play / Karen E. Ramirez ; 29. Omnimedia marketing : the case of The lone ranger / Chadwick Allen ; 30. The nuclear southwest / Audrey Goodman ; 31. Ranging over Stegner's arid west : mobility as adaptive strategy / Bonney MacDonald ; 32. The global west : temporality, spatial politics, and literary production / Susan Kollin ; 33. Tumbling dice : the problem of Las Vegas / Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis. |
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The life and times of Jo Mora : iconic artist of the American West / / Peter Hiller, edited by Gail S. Jones |
Autore | Hiller Peter <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Layton, Utah : , : Gibbs Smith, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 pages) |
Disciplina | 709.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - California
Illustrators - California |
ISBN | 1-4236-5736-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Growing into the Arts -- Wanderlust, Vaqueros, and the Missions of California -- Off to the Sierra -- Yosemite and the Trail to Arizona -- Hopiland: A Dream Come True -- Settling and Working in California -- Training for the Great War -- The Lure to the Monterey Peninsula -- Mapping History: the Cartes -- Jo Mora as Writer and Illustrator -- Abounding Talent: Etchings and Dioramas -- The End of the Trail: Putting Away the Sculpting Tools -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Jo Mora's Public Sculpture and Architectural Adornments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Sources. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794653903321 |
Hiller Peter <1952->
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The life and times of Jo Mora : iconic artist of the American West / / Peter Hiller, edited by Gail S. Jones |
Autore | Hiller Peter <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Layton, Utah : , : Gibbs Smith, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 pages) |
Disciplina | 709.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - California
Illustrators - California |
ISBN | 1-4236-5736-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Growing into the Arts -- Wanderlust, Vaqueros, and the Missions of California -- Off to the Sierra -- Yosemite and the Trail to Arizona -- Hopiland: A Dream Come True -- Settling and Working in California -- Training for the Great War -- The Lure to the Monterey Peninsula -- Mapping History: the Cartes -- Jo Mora as Writer and Illustrator -- Abounding Talent: Etchings and Dioramas -- The End of the Trail: Putting Away the Sculpting Tools -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Jo Mora's Public Sculpture and Architectural Adornments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Sources. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811193703321 |
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The rhizomatic West [[electronic resource] ] : representing the American West in a transnational, global, media age / / Neil Campbell |
Autore | Campbell Neil <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina | 700/.45878 |
Collana | Postwestern horizons |
Soggetto topico |
Place (Philosophy) in art
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art Arts, Modern - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-73402-0
9786611734022 0-8032-1783-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. ""The 'Western' in Quotes"": Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes: ""Outsider"" Photography of the West; 6. Strata and Routes: Livnig on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's ""Plastic Radiant Way""; Conclusion: On ""The Crystal Frontier""; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451510303321 |
Campbell Neil <1957->
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The rhizomatic West : representing the American West in a transnational, global, media age / / Neil Campbell |
Autore | Campbell Neil <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700/.45878 |
Collana | Postwestern horizons |
Soggetto topico |
Place (Philosophy) in art
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art Arts, Modern - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-281-73402-0
9786611734022 0-8032-1783-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. ""The 'Western' in Quotes"": Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes: ""Outsider"" Photography of the West; 6. Strata and Routes: Livnig on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's ""Plastic Radiant Way""; Conclusion: On ""The Crystal Frontier""; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778231703321 |
Campbell Neil <1957->
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The rhizomatic West : representing the American West in a transnational, global, media age / / Neil Campbell |
Autore | Campbell Neil <1957-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700/.45878 |
Collana | Postwestern horizons |
Soggetto topico |
Place (Philosophy) in art
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art Arts, Modern - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-281-73402-0
9786611734022 0-8032-1783-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing the Rhizomatic West; 1. Toward an Expanded Critical Regionalism: Contact and Interchange; 2. Feasts of Wire: Rubén Martinez and the Transfrontera Contact Zone; 3. Welcome to Westworld: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West; 4. ""The 'Western' in Quotes"": Generic Variations; 5. Dialogical Landscapes: ""Outsider"" Photography of the West; 6. Strata and Routes: Livnig on Reservation X; 7. Postwestern Generations? Douglas Coupland's ""Plastic Radiant Way""; Conclusion: On ""The Crystal Frontier""; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826798703321 |
Campbell Neil <1957->
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This ecstatic nation : the American landscape and the aesthetics of patriotism / / Terre Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Terre <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 171 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 363.700978 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - West (U.S.)
Landscapes - Social aspects - West (U.S.) Nature - Effect of human beings on - West (U.S.) Land use - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) Landscapes in art |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-003-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pass the bottle : scenic America -- In the name of the bomb : the wasteland's atomic bloom -- Timber culture : scenic Oregon and the aesthetics of clearcuts -- Open (for business) range : Wyoming's pay dirt and the virtual sublime. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464149003321 |
Ryan Terre <1959->
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This ecstatic nation : the American landscape and the aesthetics of patriotism / / Terre Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Terre <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 171 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 363.700978 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - West (U.S.)
Landscapes - Social aspects - West (U.S.) Nature - Effect of human beings on - West (U.S.) Land use - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) Landscapes in art |
ISBN | 1-61376-003-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pass the bottle : scenic America -- In the name of the bomb : the wasteland's atomic bloom -- Timber culture : scenic Oregon and the aesthetics of clearcuts -- Open (for business) range : Wyoming's pay dirt and the virtual sublime. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788674203321 |
Ryan Terre <1959->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 | ||
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This ecstatic nation : the American landscape and the aesthetics of patriotism / / Terre Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Terre <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 171 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 363.700978 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - West (U.S.)
Landscapes - Social aspects - West (U.S.) Nature - Effect of human beings on - West (U.S.) Land use - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) Landscapes in art |
ISBN | 1-61376-003-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pass the bottle : scenic America -- In the name of the bomb : the wasteland's atomic bloom -- Timber culture : scenic Oregon and the aesthetics of clearcuts -- Open (for business) range : Wyoming's pay dirt and the virtual sublime. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826315303321 |
Ryan Terre <1959->
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