Stories of old : the imagined West and the crisis of historical symbology in the 1970s

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Stories of old : the imagined West and the crisis of historical symbology in the 1970s

Title remainder

the imagined West and the crisis of historical symbology in the 1970s

Statement of responsibility

Mattias Bolkéus Blom

Creator

• Blom, Mattias Bolkéus

Subject

• American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
• Coover, Robert
• DeLillo, Don
• Didion, Joan
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
• West (U.S.) -- In literature
• Western stories -- History and criticism
• Wolfe, Tom
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"What happened to the American West as a cultural expression in the 1970s? Despite proclamations of its death, as a collection of representations the West continued to provide writers with material for the negotiation of American history and identity." "But it was a distinctly different West that emerged from the pages of such writers as Don DeLillo, Robert Coover, Jean Didlen, and Tom Wolfe." "In this study, the imagined West of these writers and of others who employed images of the past in literature, movies, political rhetoric, commercial enterprises, and historiographical writing comes under scrutiny." "It is an analysis of a historical symbology that was of critical importance to the construction of national identity during a time of cultural and social instability."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia, 106

Cataloging source

FUG

Dewey number

813/.54093278

Index

index present

LC call number

PS374.W4

LC item number

B58 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia,

Series volume

106