The Resource West of everything : the inner life of westerns, Jane Tompkins
West of everything : the inner life of westerns, Jane Tompkins
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The item West of everything : the inner life of westerns, Jane Tompkins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and filmsof the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. Into this world full of violence and manly courage, the world of John Wayne and Louis L'Amour, Tompkins takes her readers, letting them feel what the hero feels, endure what he endures. Writing with sympathy, insight, and respect, she probes the main elements of the Western--its preoccupationwith death, its barren landscapes, galloping horses, hard-bitten men and marginalized women--revealing the view of reality and code of behavior these features contain. She considers the Western hero's attraction to pain, his fear of women and language, his desire to dominate the environment--and tomerge with it. In fact, Tompkins argues, for better or worse Westerns have taught us all--men especially--how to behave. It was as a reaction against popular women's novels and women's invasion of the public sphere that Westerns originated, Tompkins maintains. With Westerns, men were reclaiming cultural territory, countering the inwardness, spirituality, and domesticity of the sentimental writers, with a roughand tumble, secular, man-centered world. Tompkins brings these insights to bear in considering film classics such as Red River and Lonely Are the Brave, and novels such as Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Owen Wister's The Virginian. In one of the most moving chapters (chosen for Best AmericanEssays of 1991), Tompkins shows how the life of Buffalo Bill Cody, killer of Native Americans and charismatic star of the Wild West show, evokes the contradictory feelings which the Western typically elicits--horror and fascination with violence, but also love and respect for the romantic ideal ofthe cowboy. Whether interpreting a photograph of John Wayne of meditating on the slaughter of cattle, Jane Tompkins writes with humor, compassion, and a provocative intellect. Her book will appeal to many Americans who read or watch Westerns, and to all those interested in a serious approach to popularculture
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages)
- Contents
-
- Death
- Women and the language of men
- Landscape
- Horses
- Cattle
- Dry-gulched : a reckoning
- The Virginian : Wister's mother
- Zane Grey : writing the purple sage
- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988
- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour
- Two men
- Isbn
- 9781423738268
- Label
- West of everything : the inner life of westerns
- Title
- West of everything
- Title remainder
- the inner life of westerns
- Statement of responsibility
- Jane Tompkins
- Subject
-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- Literature. | Western stories -- History and criticism
- Literatuurwetenschap
- USA
- West (U.S.) -- In literature
- West United States
- Western films
- Western films -- History and criticism
- Western stories
- Western stories -- History and criticism
- Westernfilm
- Westernroman
- Wild-westfilms
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and filmsof the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. Into this world full of violence and manly courage, the world of John Wayne and Louis L'Amour, Tompkins takes her readers, letting them feel what the hero feels, endure what he endures. Writing with sympathy, insight, and respect, she probes the main elements of the Western--its preoccupationwith death, its barren landscapes, galloping horses, hard-bitten men and marginalized women--revealing the view of reality and code of behavior these features contain. She considers the Western hero's attraction to pain, his fear of women and language, his desire to dominate the environment--and tomerge with it. In fact, Tompkins argues, for better or worse Westerns have taught us all--men especially--how to behave. It was as a reaction against popular women's novels and women's invasion of the public sphere that Westerns originated, Tompkins maintains. With Westerns, men were reclaiming cultural territory, countering the inwardness, spirituality, and domesticity of the sentimental writers, with a roughand tumble, secular, man-centered world. Tompkins brings these insights to bear in considering film classics such as Red River and Lonely Are the Brave, and novels such as Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Owen Wister's The Virginian. In one of the most moving chapters (chosen for Best AmericanEssays of 1991), Tompkins shows how the life of Buffalo Bill Cody, killer of Native Americans and charismatic star of the Wild West show, evokes the contradictory feelings which the Western typically elicits--horror and fascination with violence, but also love and respect for the romantic ideal ofthe cowboy. Whether interpreting a photograph of John Wayne of meditating on the slaughter of cattle, Jane Tompkins writes with humor, compassion, and a provocative intellect. Her book will appeal to many Americans who read or watch Westerns, and to all those interested in a serious approach to popularculture
- Cataloging source
- COO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tompkins, Jane P
- Dewey number
- 813.09
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PS374.W4
- LC item number
- T66 1993eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Oxford paperbacks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Western stories
- Western films
- West (U.S.)
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Literature.
- Western stories
- Literature
- Western films
- Western stories
- West United States
- Wild-westfilms
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Westernroman
- Westernfilm
- USA
- Label
- West of everything : the inner life of westerns, Jane Tompkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Death -- Women and the language of men -- Landscape -- Horses -- Cattle -- Dry-gulched : a reckoning -- The Virginian : Wister's mother -- Zane Grey : writing the purple sage -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 -- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour -- Two men
- Control code
- 191942111
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781423738268
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191942111
- Label
- West of everything : the inner life of westerns, Jane Tompkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Death -- Women and the language of men -- Landscape -- Horses -- Cattle -- Dry-gulched : a reckoning -- The Virginian : Wister's mother -- Zane Grey : writing the purple sage -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 -- The last of the breed : homage to Louis L'Amour -- Two men
- Control code
- 191942111
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781423738268
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191942111
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- Literature. | Western stories -- History and criticism
- Literatuurwetenschap
- USA
- West (U.S.) -- In literature
- West United States
- Western films
- Western films -- History and criticism
- Western stories
- Western stories -- History and criticism
- Westernfilm
- Westernroman
- Wild-westfilms
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