Cowboy classics : the roots of the American western in the epic tradition / Kirsten Day.

Compares the ancient epic and the American Western as parallel cultural narratives. Cowboy Classics looks at the remarkably intimate connection between Westerns and Greek and Roman epics, each of which focuses on a mythic-historical period from the past where our societal notions of what constitutes...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Day, Kirsten, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2016.
Series:Screening antiquity.
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