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The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature
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by Thomas J. Lyon
Sales Rank: 700981
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List Price: $42.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 464 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA May 20, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195124618
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195124613
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
From Booklist
Featuring more than forty selections, this anthology provides a tantalizing overview of western American literature from the sixteenth century to the present. Lyon has carefully chosen a representative range of essays, stories, plays, poetry, and excerpts from novels and journals to most accurately reflect both the historical evolution and the essential diversity of the western experience. From the colorfully simplistic to the starkly realistic, the American West as a literary subject has consistently intrigued a broad spectrum of readers. Celebrated authors such as John Muir, Owen Wister, Zane Gray, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, and Amy Tan are predictably included, but a host of lesser-known, multicultural writers are also represented. A culturally and historically significant literary collection. Margaret Flanagan
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Product Review
"Distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, in editing The Literary West, has compiled an impressive array of writings on the American West, past and present.Lyon's introduction is uncommonly helpful as it presents a summary of writings west of the Mississippi, from the conquistadors to the Lone Ranger and beyond."--Texas Globe
"Excellent selection of texts.The introduction by Dr. Lyon is absolutely superb--as is the Western Chronology. These two items really, 'make' the book! One could buy the book just for those!"--Dr. Denis Fournier, University of Mary
"A powerful, well-made tool, one students and general readers alike can handle without feeling burdened or intimidated by length and one that provides specialists with plenty of reference material, not to mention as easy grip on both past and present. In the end, few informed readers will be able to argue with Lyon's judgments or his knowledge, much less with his refreshing willingness to take chances.. The Literary West is definitely a book made to last."--The Bloomsbury Review
"No one has a better grasp of Western Literature and its relationship to the authentic history of the West than Thomas Lyon."--Stewart Udall
"A tantalizing overview of western American literature from the sixteenth century to the present.A culturally and historically significant literary collection."--Booklist
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