Lee Clark Mitchell

Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

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Produktbeschreibung

Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University.¿He is the author of¿Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels;¿Westerns:¿Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books. ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781496201966
• ISBN-10: 1496201965
• Artikelnr.: 50989341

Autorenporträt

Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels; Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books.        

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: There’s No Such Thing as Postwestern, and It’s a Good Thing
Too
1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock
2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma
3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star
4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain
6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men
7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor
Epilogue: Habits of Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index