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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Erben, Rudolph. "Western American Drama and the Myth of the Changing West, 1890-1990," University of New Mexico, May 1990.
This study of twentieth-century western drama and myth documents change and continuity in the mythic West after the closing of the frontier. Through a binary structure common to mythic narratives, western drama describes a society in transition from old to new West, frontier to region, mythic to geographical territory. The dissertation contains a historiographical overview of western cultural history from 1890 to 1990, a chapter on the history of western drama, and chapter-length analyses of contemporary dramatists Preston Jones, Sam Shepard, Mark Medoff, and Luis Valdez.
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