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Lyons, Greg, ed.: Literature of the American West: a Cultural Approach.(Book Review)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20040922
Author:Ellis, Larry

LYONS, Greg, ed. Literature of the American West: A Cultural Approach. New York: Longman, 2003. xii, 496 pp. $30.67.

From the colonial romances of James Fenimore Cooper and William Gilmore Simms to Internet Web sites dedicated to contemporary cowboy poetry, the canon of western American literature has shifted as frequently as the frontiers and borderlands that are its narrative arena. The last thirty years in particular have witnessed a literature, dominated by traditions established in the late-nineteenth-century dime novel, reach outward to embrace Native American and other ...

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