EMPIRE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: A NEW HISTORICIST INTERROGATION OF NARRATIVE IN OWEN WISTER'S THE VIRGINIAN, WILLA CATHER'S DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, AND CORMAC MCCARTHY'S ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

EMPIRE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: A NEW HISTORICIST INTERROGATION OF NARRATIVE IN OWEN WISTER'S THE VIRGINIAN, WILLA CATHER'S DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, AND CORMAC MCCARTHY'S ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

This thesis explores the evolution of American Western narrative after the 1893 closing of the Western Frontier. Formerly representing a seemingly limitless fuel of symbolic growth, the frontier's closing threatened further national prosperity. Without new Western lands to conquer, narratives a...

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Main Author: Steinbach, Brian Patrick
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2014
Subjects:
Cather
Empire
McCarthy
Western
Wister
World's Fairs
Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1471
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2485&context=theses

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https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1471
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2485&context=theses

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