作者: Lee Clark Mitchell

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism’ and ‘manifest destiny, ‘ pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire …

`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.’The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was …

`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.’The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was …

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro’s Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus’s Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams’s The Visiting Privilege …

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro’s Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus’s Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams’s The Visiting Privilege …

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For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded …

For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded …

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, …

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, …