Textual authenticity and the contemporary West: John McPhee's 'Rising From The Plains'

Kenneth Millard

Textual authenticity and the contemporary West: John McPhee's 'Rising From The Plains'

Kenneth Millard

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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A critical study of John McPhee's Rising from the Plains in the context of recent debates about the status of regional studies in a postmodern culture, this essay asks what it means to be authentically Western in a late twentieth-century culture comprising simulacra.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-51
Number of pages	17
Journal	Mosaic Journal
Volume	47
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2014

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