The American West : history, myth and the national identity
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Paris :
Armand Colin
DL 1998.
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| Collection: | Collection U. Langue et civilisation anglo-saxonnes
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Table des matières:
- Captivity narratives John Filson and the Boone myth Davy Crockett and Kit Carson The pastoral myth : Crèvecoeur and Jefferson ; the ideal of the farmer, or, America versus Europe Fiction : mythmakers and debunkers : John [i.e., James] Fenimore Cooper ; humorists and realists Pictorial representations of the West The publicizers of the frontier myth in popular culture : dime novels and "pulps" ; William F. Cody and the Wild West Show ; The Western The West as American history : a patrician among the "savages" : Francis Parkman ; Theodore Roosevelt : the "strenuous life The mystique of the West in presidential politics Mirage in the West : the vision of a democratic capitalism The West as natural preserve : "the call of the wild" : John Muir The West as trope of the American psyche : Nathaniel Hawthorne : social transgression and self-fulfillment ; Herman Melville : Ahab, the arrogant hunter ; The writer as Indian : Henry David Thoreau ; Walt Whitman : singing the American Adam in the American idiom ; Sam Clemens/Mark Twain : speaking American ; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn