Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship

by Nathaniel Lewis

Book Overview

The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts--and thus of the very nature--of western writing. Why is western writing virtually missing from the American literary canon but a frequent success in the marketplace? The skewed status of western literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080321846X
• ISBN13: 9780803218468
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"