Editor/Author
Witschi, Nicolas S.
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$228.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$343.42
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8733-6
Category: Language & Literature - American literature
Image Count:
7
Book Status: Available
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. - Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west - Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions - Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities - Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies