Under the sun : myth and realism in western American literature

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Introduction / Barbara Howard Meldrum

[Reality, myth, and the West]

Myth, reality, and the American frontier / Max Westbrook

The West as archetype / Harold P. Simonson

[Writing about the West : history, realism, and myth]

Historical realism and the American West : the example of Charles Neider's The authentic death of Hendry Jones / Stephen Tatum

Men, women, and madness : pioneer Plains literature / June O. Underwood

Western myth, Mormon society / L.L. Lee

Romance without women : the sterile fiction of the American West / Madelon Heatherington

[Mythologizing the West]

Mythic reality : structure and theme in Cather's O pioneers / Ann Moseley

Alien myth and natural myth in the poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril / James R. Saucerman

Classical myth versus realism in Crane's "The bride comes to Yellow Sky" / Chester L. Wolford

Realism and romance in the western stories of Stephen Crane / Michael J. Collins

The illustrator as writer : Mary Hallock Foote and the myth of the West / Shelley Armitage

Images and icons : the fiction and photography of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven

[Beyond myth]

Beyond myth : Welch's Winter in the blood / Jack Brenner