Wister Virginian

TATUM, STEPHEN (EDITOR); GRAULICH, MELODY (EDITOR). Reading The Virginian In The New West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2003.

300 pages. Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and uses Wister's novel as a lens for studying what the next century of western writing and reading will bring. The contributors address Wister's life and travels, the novel's influence on and handling of gender and race issues, and its illustrations and various retellings on stage, film, and television as points of departure for speculations about the "new West"Nas indeed Wister himself does at the end of the novel. The contributors reconsider the novel's textual complexity and investigate The Virginian's role in American literary and cultural history. Together their essays represent a new western literary studies, comparable to the new western history. Softcover. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Westerns, Owen Wister, Movies, The Virginian).]

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Owen Wister: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, Oxford World's Classics, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, März 2009 ISBN: 9780199554102

Sofort lieferbar! Restauflage in gutem Zustand. Rechnung mit MwSt. Taschenbuch, 400 Seiten, The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do-wells. His courtship of the genteel Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, is a humourously observed battle of the sexes, demonstrating that the 'customs of the country' must eventually prevail. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian exudes a sense of redemptive possibility, drawing on Wister's experience of a summer spent on a Wyoming ranch in 1895. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, 'The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher' (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents.

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Wister, Owen. The Virginian. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Very good, with minimal shelf wear, slight curling of covers and wrinkle on pg 41. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 1.06 x 7.99 x 5.37; 434 pages; Dime novels had featured som rather scrawny horse-bound tenders of cattle, but not until 1902 did the cowboy become a fully realized article of American culture. That year Owen Wister, a native of Philadelphia, published the novel that established the conventions of the western. An immediate bestseller, it has never faded from public consciousness. Suddenly there was the natural aristocrat, the Virginian, who faced down the archetypal villain, Trampas, flinging at him the unforgettable words "When you call me that, smile!" There was the eastern schoolteacher, Molly, far from being a wilted flower. They moved in teh raw, bracing atmosphere that generations of readers and moviegoers would come to expect from westerns. To read THE VIRGINIAN, again or for the first time, is to enter a cultural phenomenon. The Bison Book makes available once more the memorable 1929 edition that brought together the art of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. It adds an introduction by one of today's most brilliant creators of rugged individualists. Thomas McGuane. The author of NOBODY'S ANGEL (1982) and KEEP THE CHANGE (1989). McGuane shows how THE VIRGINIAN "bears all the advantages and disadvantages of being a precursor.. 080329736X.

Reprint; Fourth Printing, Paperback, Illustrated by Remington, Frederic and Russell, Charles M.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket.

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Wister, Owen illustrator:Arthur I Keller: THE VIRGINIAN. With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. New York/London Macmillan 1902 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed.

First edition Signed by Wister on a tipped-in sheet. Basis for the big screen film. In 1891, after a conversation in which the author and his friend, Teddy Roosevelt discussed the literary potential of his impressions of western life, Wister began writing his stories of America's last internal frontier. These preriminary works eventually led to the novel THE VIRGINIAN: A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS (1902), a story about the conflict between wilderness and civilization and the passing of the traditional way of life. Wister, who later characterized his best-selling book as an "expression of American faith", dedicated it originally to Theodore Roosevelt: "Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to remind you of their author's changeless admiration." Hardcover condition:Very good bright copy with a little smudging to the red in the title, solid and tight jacket condition:No Jacket

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