Wallace Stegner and the American West

Wallace Stegner and the American West

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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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Main Author: Page, Selina
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Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6574
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spelling ndltd-UBC-oai-circle.library.ubc.ca-2429-65742018-01-05T17:33:13Z Wallace Stegner and the American West Page, Selina 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 2009-03-26T19:51:30Z 2009-03-26T19:51:30Z 1997 1997-11 Text Thesis/Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6574 eng For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. 5250364 bytes application/pdf
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description 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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