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  1. Geographic personas
    self-transformation and performance in the American West
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

    "Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by one or more of three transformative factors -population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention... more

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    "Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by one or more of three transformative factors -population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention during a great transitional period in the American West

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781496225061
    Subjects: Darstellende Kunst; Kunst; Literatur; Film; Nationalbewusstsein; Identität
    Other subjects: American literature / West (U; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Persona (Literature); American literature; Intellectual life; Literature; West (U; West United States; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 215 Seiten
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    Geographic personas: the passing of Clarence King -- Lord of the limber tongue: the great Spanish land grant fraud and the Barony of Arizona -- The French Canadian cowboy: Branding Will James -- Making an Indian: the case of Sylvester Long -- L'Ouest bohème: Willa Cather's transnational prairie -- A homeless snail: Yone Noguchi and Japanese self-invention -- The past is the biggest country of all: remembering Helena Modjeska -- Deutschland über alles: Germany's literary colonization of the U.S. frontier -- The problem of representation: Isadora Duncan sleeps with the Russian Navy -- Afterword: Burials and exhumations

  2. <<The>> Frontier experience
    a reader's guide to the life and literature of the American West
    Contributor: Tuska, Jon (Publisher)
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Tuska, Jon (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0899501184
    RVK Categories: HR 1545 ; NP 6020
    Subjects: West (U
    Scope: XIV, 434 S.
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