The west of Frederick Jackson Turner in three American plays
If theater can be argued to be one of the most enduringly telling measures of how America views itself, its depiction of the frontier--or "The West"--should not only lend itself to Turnerian analysis but also serve as a measure of how perceptive Frederick Jackson Turner actually was in del...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass.) Mass.), 2000-10, Vol.23 (3), p.89 |
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Zusammenfassung: | If theater can be argued to be one of the most enduringly telling measures of how America views itself, its depiction of the frontier--or "The West"--should not only lend itself to Turnerian analysis but also serve as a measure of how perceptive Frederick Jackson Turner actually was in delineating this fundamental, if partially mythic, element of the American psyche. |
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ISSN: | 1542-7331 1542-734X |