Worldviews And The American West : the Life of the Place Itself.
A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, "...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252). |
| ISBN: | 0874214076 9780874214079 0874214084 9780874214086 9780874214567 0874214564 |