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West of everything : the inner life of westerns / Jane Tompkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tompkins, Jane P.
- Series:
- Oxford paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Western films--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 245 p. ) ill., ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the Amercian west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. She probes the main elements of the Western, revealing the view of reality and code of behavior these features contain.
- Contents:
- Death
- Women and the language of men
- Landscape
- Horses
- Cattle
- Dry-gulched : a reckoning
- The Virginian : Wister's mother
- Zane Grey : writing the purple sage
- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988
- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour
- Two men.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028202-9
- 0-19-802371-5
- 1-280-65486-4
- 1-4237-3826-8
- 1-60129-925-7
- OCLC:
- 923713875
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