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Larry Wilson: Lassoing the Western myth
From: Pasadena Star-News
Date: 20080221
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When USC English prof Bill Handley talks about the Western canon, he's not talking Harold Bloom claptrap about "Gilgamesh," et al.
Not that there's anything wrong with dead English white men, or not much.
No, the kind of books Handley reads and finds importance in are sometimes of the kind that would have been dismissed in stodgier academic eras.
Louis L'Amour and our own Zane Grey, for instance. Guys who wrote dime novels about gunslingers and varmints and who early in the last century created for my grandparents' generation the myth of a just- disappeared Old West that is more real to us ...
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