Western Literature Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-345
Scope and Contents
The Western Literature Association collection contains essays submitted to the thirteenth and
fourteenth annual meetings of the association, 1978 and 1979 respectively; along with their
corresponding agenda. The collection also contains submissions to the fifteenth and sixteenth
conferences, (1980 and 1981), but these later two only contain a few essays and do not include
their agendas.
The Western Literature Association was founded in 1965 as a scholarly association to encourage
the study of the North American West’s culture and literature, both past and present. The
association holds conferences to share the research accumulated within a certain time frame. The
association also publishes its journal, Western American Literature, a leading journal in western
American literary studies.
The collection is broken up into four series one for each annual meeting: the thirteenth annual
meeting, the fourteenth annual meeting, the fifteenth annual meeting and the sixteenth annual
meeting. Each series is arranged alphabetically by author, with titles listed below.
Dates
- Creation: 1978 - 1981
Extent
2 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Box 1
Thirteenth Annual Meeting, 1978
“Straight Talk in Missoula: A Conversation with Dorothy M. Johnson”
“The Hanging Tree”
“Sons of La Belle France: Frenchmen in Novels of the Fur Trade”
“Allusion and Archetype in The Ox-Bow Incident”
“American Self-Realization as Self-Destruction in A. B. Guthries’s The
Big Sky”
“Armenian-American Writers”
“Mary Austin’s The Arrow-Makers: Regionalism, Feminism, and Western
Realism”
“Assaying the Mother Lode: Frederick Manfred’s Katherine King” “Wolf that I am…: Animal Symbology in The Buckskin Man Tales”
“Justice from Men or Gods: Thematic Conflicts in Manfred’s King of
Spades”
“An Early Stage of Fisher’s Journey to the East: Passions Spin the Plot”
“Violence in Cranes The Blue Hotel”
“The Thematic Significance of Rosasharn”
“Myth or Reality: A Pocket Dictionary”
Fourteenth Annual Meeting, 1979
“Poetry and History in Neihardt’s A Cycle of the West”
“Edward Abbey’s Desert Pastoral”
“Messianic Masculinity in Ken Kesey’s West”
“Recycling Billy the Kid in California: Charles Neider’s The Aunthentic
Death of Henry Jones”
“Post Modern Humor in Alvin Greenberg’s The Invention of the West”
“John Nichols’ Social Thesis Fiction”
“Down Wister’s Trail with Clarence Mulford and B.M. Bower”
“Three Versions of a Mountain Man”
“The Virginian and the Johnson County War: A Study in ‘Frontier
Justice’”
“The First American Indian”
“Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Ken Kesey Passed Here”
“‘To Be or Not To Be: Solutions by Waters, Momaday, Silko, and Welch”
` “Epic Qualities in Kelton’s The Wolf and the Buffalo”
“Perspectives on The Cheyenne Exodus by Henry, Fast and Sandoz”
“Dark Bridwell: Vardis Fisher’s Frontier Lear”
“Mountain Man: Sam Minard’s Conversion from Hatred to Love”
“The Tamed and the Tainted: Land in Faulkner’s The Bear and H.L.
Davis’ Winds of Morning”
“A discussion of The Long Poem”
“The Tin Star and High Noon: From Source to Film”
“The Totems of the Haida Indians of the Alaska Panhandle”
“Folklore in Bowie’s Mine by Elmer Kelton”
“Clarence King (1842-1901): Some Clues to Psycho-Biography”
“A Constant Dream of My Childhood: Angling and Nostalgia in Richard
Brautigan’s Fiction”
“Deathwind: Zane Grey’s Wetzel”
“The Nash Garcia Case: A New Mexico Murder in Fact and Fiction”
“Style and Symbol in Kathleen Fraser’s New Shoes: A New West Coast
Sensibility”
“A Note on the Animal Imagery and Symbolism in McTeague”
“Western American Pastoral Fiction: The Example of Guthrie”
“Martin Chuzzlewit: The American Adam in Victorian Fiction”
“America’s Second Errand into the Wilderness: The Mormon Journal as
Literature”
FD 6 Kaye, Frances W.
“The 49 th Parallel and the 100 th Meridian—Some Lines for Thought”
“Mental Retardation in The Sound and the Fury”
“The Last Picture Show”
“Cyrus Townsend Brady’s Recollections of a Missionary in the Great
West”
Sexuality and Stereotypes Aboard Steinbeck’s Wayward Bus”
“The Inconsistent Octopus”
“The Western vs. The Southern Point of View in Willa Carters Fiction”
“A Statement on My Title: Willa Carter’s Best Western Stories”
“One of Curs as American Naturalism”
“Working Papers: The Feminist Press Out West”
“Historical Fact and Literary Truth: The Problem of Authenticity in
Western American Literature”
“Growing Up in the Middle West: A Comparison of Sociological and
Literary Works”
“Regional Literature as a Model for Living in a Shrinking World”
“Why I Killed My Brother: An Essay on Mark Twain”
“East in Not Necessarily East: Melville’s Typee as Related to American
Frontier Experience and Literature of the 1830s and 1740s”
“James Steele: New Mexico’s First Local Colorist”
FD 18 Saucerman, James R.
“The Prairie Melts…Into Art”
“The Watchful Gods and The Morning Watch: Religion and Initiation in Clark and
Agee”
“When White Men Look at the Indian: Zane Grey’s The Vanishing American and
Colin Stuart’s Walks Far Woman”
“Immortal Youth Astride a Dream: The Cowboy in Western American Poetry”
“Edward Dorn’s Slinger: The Heroic Impulse in the Post Modern American Long
Poem”
“The Probability of Tragedy in Western American Literature”
“Brautigan’s Dance Odyssey”
“The Other End of the World: Owen Wister, Harold Frederic, and a Dead
Day Out of the West”
“The Fault Line and the Final Frontier: The West Coast in Women’s
Science Fiction”
“The Penitente Brotherhood in Southwestern Fiction: A Case Study in
Folklife and Literature”
“Frederick Manfred’s The Golden Bowl as Epic”
“The Way to Rainy Mountain as Classical Epic”
“Owen Wister’s Eastern Audience”
“The Moral in Austin’s The Land of Little Rain”
“The Village in Tom Sawyer: Myth and Reality”
“Manfred’s Developing Vision of the Sexes”
“The Mayaad: An Epic in Process”
Cultural context
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository