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Owen Wister and the American West: A Biographical and Critical Study
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… silence in the original film version of Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and demonstrates a male aversion to language as a tool for guarding masculinity against the modernization and feminization of the West. The onslaught of modernization that transformed the United States in the beginning …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… silence in the original film version of Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and demonstrates a male aversion to language as a tool for guarding masculinity against the modernization and feminization of the West. The onslaught of modernization that transformed the United States in the beginning …
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Countering the Frontier: Early Western American Fiction and the Geography of Desire
… for examining how Bret Harte's stories, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, and Willa Cather's early Nebraska novels juxtapose representations of western physical and cultural geography as frontier with representations of other desires that counter this mapping by …
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"Take my saddle from the wall" : Larry McMurtry and his innovations on the formula Western.
… Anything For Billy, McMurtry's parody of Wister's archetypal Western, The Virginian. Anything For Billy is harsh in its criticism of the formula Western, and it raises the question of what really happened in the West. McMurtry's use of and ambivalence toward the formula Western, and the …
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One- and two-qubit operations in Si-MOS quantum dots
Quantum computers have potential to solve hard problems that even the most advanced supercomputers are not capable of, such as prime factoring, database search, and quantum simulation. Quantum bits, or qubits, made from silicon quantum dots is one scalable approach that can be used to realize a …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
As writer, essayist, environmentalist, and westerner, Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) confronted what he understood to be an imagined and literal American West constructed by myths of frontier conquest, pioneer settlement in and transformation of the western landscape, and cowboy exceptionalism …