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by Stephen J. May. 180 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Stephen J. May

Publisher:

   Ohio University Press

Place of Publication:

  Athens, OH  

Publication Year:

  1997
Subjects:   Grey, Zane,--1872-1939, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography, Western Stories--History And Criticism, West (U.S.)--In Literature
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Zane Grey: Romancing the West
Book by Stephen J. May; Ohio University Press, 1997
Subjects: Grey, Zane--1872-1939, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography, West (U.S.)--In Literature, Western Stories--History And Criticism
...0-8214-1182-9 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. 2. Novelists, American -- 20th...western romance in the tradition of Zane Grey. In 1854 John Rollin Ridge published...involvement with the present moment. Grey also drank deeply of the western...
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Subjects: West (U.S.)--in literature, Western films--History and criticism, Western stories--History and criticism
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...History and criticism. 4. West U.S. in literature. 5. Middle West in literature. 6. Narration Rhetoric...Consequently, one prominent element in many stories of the West is the effort to establish structure...endeavor is James Fenimore Cooper s The Last of the Mohicans . The text...enclosed stance of an individual who came West in order to reinforce eastern superiority...
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...credibility and insight about the West could take great advantage of the...of authorship that seemed to pull in two directions: on the one hand...crippling foundation for western literature. In keeping with the autogenetic...dence reposed in him by the Hon. J. S. Johnston, . . . the concurrent testimony...romance Elkswatawa (1836) James S. French explained that the main incidents detailed in this work are strictly historical...collection of sketches Legends of the West (1832), neatly epitomizing the claim...Pattie thinks more of action than literature, and is more competent to perform...and interesting. As novelist James S. French put it, the nature of his...problematic. Colton lays it bare in discussing American Indian culture...and truthful representation of the West with a sentimental poetry and...nothing so ardently, as that the literature of the country should be the indigenous...
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Zane Grey and Images of the American West
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...Zanesville, Ohio, and died in 1939 in Altadena, California. In adulthood...the spelling of his surname to Grey. As a teenager he excelled at...heroism of his ancestor Betty Zane, whose dash through a hail of...rangeland grazing law and the 1872 mining law, but I contend that...
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Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and the Environmental in the U.S. and Beyond
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