Wallace Stegner and the American West
This thesis is a study of the revision of the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner offered in the novels of Wallace Stegner. The thesis adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to literature and history, in order to indicate their ideological identification within the Western American context,...
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| Format: | Others |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6574 |
| Summary: | This thesis is a study of the revision of the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson
Turner offered in the novels of Wallace Stegner. The thesis adopts a cross-disciplinary
approach to literature and history, in order to indicate their ideological
identification within the Western American context, in the form of myth. In its
reading of the differing narratives of the American West produced by Frederick
Jackson Turner and Wallace Stegner, a contrast is made between the ideological
consciousness as opposed to the conditional materiality of the American western
historical experience. === Arts, Faculty of === English, Department of === Graduate |
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