| Description |
xiv, 192 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 10 |
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Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 10
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| Contents |
1. Prologue: The Myth of the Texas Empire -- 2. Ancestors: The Roots of Texas Writing -- 3. Herding Words: The Emergence of Texas Literature -- 4. This Stubborn Soil: Texas Earth and Texas Culture -- 5. Texas Gothic: The South in Lone Star Life and Letters -- 6. The Way West: The Frontier in Texas Fiction -- 7. Texans at War: The Military Experience in Texas Letters -- 8. A Prairie Homestead: Texas Writers and the Family Romance -- 9. Doing Without: Larry McMurtry's Thalia Trilogy -- 10. Mac the Knife: Violence in Texas Fiction -- 11. A Fan's Notes: Football in Texas Life and Literature -- 12. Future Shock: Texas Writing Today and Tomorrow |
| Summary |
Pilkington traces the evolution of Texas literature from its roots (including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the state's literary "prototype," and J. Frank Dobie, who "taught Texans how to succeed at the culture game") to its twentieth-century flowering (writers like John Graves, Rolando Hinojosa, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry). He explores questions as diverse as who is a Texan, what makes a "Texas" writer, what distinguishes the nascent Texas literary tradition from broader southwestern literature, why regional literature is relevant, and where Texas writing is going. Adding an autobiographical dimension to literary explication, Pilkington uses his experiences of growing up in North Texas in the 1940s and 1950s to illustrate facets of the Texas mythos |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-184) and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- Texas -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Texas.
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| SUBJECT |
Texas http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80129616 -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005642
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Texas -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117251
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| LC no. |
98022261 |
| ISBN |
089096839X alkaline paper |
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