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dc.contributor.advisorColquitt, Betsy
dc.contributor.authorLich, Glen E.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T15:10:28Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T15:10:28Z
dc.date.created1984en_US
dc.date.issued1984en_US
dc.identifieraleph-238978en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/32633
dc.description.abstractTo the extent that the Southwest perceives itself as an alter ego of mainstream America, the myth that informs Fred Gipson's writing should not be interpreted as nostalgia, but rather as an attempt by a community of believers to survive in the shadow of a dominant culture. The structures that undergird Gipson's fiction and history and the relationships of works, author, and audience reveal a hierarchy of values and a social construction of reality communicated through compelling metaphors and symbols. If the fiction seems formulaic and the history taxonomic, that is in part because in the Southwest a distinction has never been clearly drawn between fiction and history: both suffer from an aesthetic of verisimilitude. Criticism has been arrested by these symptoms. The intentionality of this writing has not been coherently examined, nor has the world view that manifests itself in this literature been exposed. Products of a residual, intuitive America where assimilation has been slow, the fiction and the history of the region are neither escapist nor reversionary, but project an America that was, and might have been. This literature is characteristic of the fiction and history that emerging nations produce: mythopoetic, vernacular in setting and form, and affective.
dc.format.extentxxvi, 209 leaves, bounden_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Printen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAS38.L53en_US
dc.subject.lcshGipson, Fred, 1908---Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.lcshAuthors, American--Texasen_US
dc.subject.lcshAmerican literature--Texasen_US
dc.titleReturn of the American: speculations on Fred Gipson and Texas writingen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of English
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentEnglish
local.academicunitDepartment of English
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaEnglish
dc.identifier.callnumberMain Stacks: AS38 .L53 (Regular Loan)
dc.identifier.callnumberSpecial Collections: AS38 .L53 (Non-Circulating)
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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