Détails bibliographiques
| Auteurs principaux : |
Rezé Michel
(Auteur),
Bowen Ralph
(Auteur) |
| Format : |
Manuel |
| Langue : |
anglais |
| Titre complet : |
The American West : history, myth and the national identity / Michel Rezé, Ralph Bowen |
| Publié : |
Paris :
Armand Colin
, DL 1998
|
| Description matérielle : |
1 vol. (190 p.) |
| Collection : |
Langue et civilisation anglo-saxonne
|
| Contenu : |
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 |
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