Lost in the New West
Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane
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2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7223-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7223-0 (ISBN)
Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers – John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane – who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy.
Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.
Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.
Mark Asquith is the author of Reading the Novels of John Williams: A Flaw of Light (2017), The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2009). He holds a PhD from UCL, University of London, UK.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Where’s the All-American Cowboy At?’
1. Butcher’s Crossings's Lost Vision: Williams’s Cowboy Outsider
2. Lost between Borders: McCarthy’s Vanishing Cowboys
3. Lost in the Hyperreal: Proulx’s Broken Cowboys
4. Lost in the Shadow of the Crazies: McGuane’s Dislocated Cowboys
Conclusion: Where’s the All-American Cowboy Going?
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-7223-8 / 1501372238 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-7223-0 / 9781501372230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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