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- catalog abstract ""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." "The Word Rides Again represents a significant departure from more traditional studies of frontier literature. It reaffirms the continuum between popular and literary texts and explores the ways that frontier novels have echoed, endorsed, and extended each other from the inception of the genre."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12439565.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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." "The Word Rides Again represents a significant departure from more traditional studies of frontier literature. It reaffirms the continuum between popular and literary texts and explores the ways that frontier novels have echoed, endorsed, and extended each other from the inception of the genre."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: A Personal Beginning -- Introduction: The "Origin" of the Popular Western and Some Themes -- 1. Hobomok: A Brief Case Study from the Beginning of the Genre -- 2. "She war a woman": Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction -- 3. "Don't forget the cowboys, Sandy": Mark Twain and the Western Myth -- 4. A Man's Role: Literary Influence and The Virginian -- 5. (Re)Writing a Native American Western: John Rollin Ridge and Zitkala-Sa -- 6. Riders of the Papal Sage: Willa Cather's "Western" -- 7. The Many Echoes of The Man Who Killed the Deer -- Epilogue: Reading the Western and the Importance of History.".
- catalog extent "xx, 236 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Word rides again.".
- catalog identifier "0821414178 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0821414186 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Word rides again.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,".
- catalog relation "Word rides again.".
- catalog subject "813/.087409 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.F73 S74 2002".
- catalog subject "Western stories History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: A Personal Beginning -- Introduction: The "Origin" of the Popular Western and Some Themes -- 1. Hobomok: A Brief Case Study from the Beginning of the Genre -- 2. "She war a woman": Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction -- 3. "Don't forget the cowboys, Sandy": Mark Twain and the Western Myth -- 4. A Man's Role: Literary Influence and The Virginian -- 5. (Re)Writing a Native American Western: John Rollin Ridge and Zitkala-Sa -- 6. Riders of the Papal Sage: Willa Cather's "Western" -- 7. The Many Echoes of The Man Who Killed the Deer -- Epilogue: Reading the Western and the Importance of History.".
- catalog title "The word rides again : rereading the frontier in American fiction / J. David Stevens.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".