The Virginian¿s Cultural Clashes
Aksnes, Karoline
Cultural clashes between East and West constitute a fundamental trait in any formula Western. The Virginian's Cultural Clashes goes back to the genre's beginning, studying this phenomenon as it is represented in the foundational text of the Western genre, Owen Wister's The Virginian from 1902. Through the perspective of literary transculturation, this work focuses on the ways in which cultural encounter is staged and acted out in Wister's nove...