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Author

Bredahl, A. Carl (Axel Carl), 1940-

Title New ground : western American narrative and the literary canon / A. Carl Bredahl, Jr.

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1989.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Special Collections Whitehead	813.5409327 B743n 1989	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xi, 195 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192).
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Working within enclosure : the traditional canon -- The demands of space : the Westering imagination -- Divided narrative : Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson -- Hemingway : the body as matrix -- The big sky : searching for a new story -- High country in The ox-bow incident -- The conquest of Don Pedro : Harvey Fergusson's "Long rider" -- Wright Morris : living in the world -- Valuing surface : the imagination of Ivan Doig -- After words : the western movies of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.
Subject	American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Middle West -- History and criticism.
	Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
	Western stories -- History and criticism.
	West (U.S.) -- In literature.
	Middle West -- In literature.
	West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.
	Narration (Rhetoric)
	Canon (Literature)
ISBN	0807818542 (alk. paper)