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Shane : the critical edition / Jack Schaefer ; edited by James C. Work ; foreword by Marc Simmons.

Schaefer, Jack, 1907-1991 (Author). Work, James C. (Added Author).

Summary:

In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0803291426 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780803291423 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0803241453 (hard)
  • ISBN: 9780803241459 (hard)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 432 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1984]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-432).
Formatted Contents Note:
Historical and biographical background. Clash of frontiers : a historical parallel to Jack Schaefer's Shane / Chuck Rankin -- Jack Schaefer / Gerald Haslam -- Shane / Jack Schaefer -- The novel : essays in evaluation and interpretation. An interview with Jack Schaefer / Henry Joseph Nuwer -- Growing up with the American West : fiction of Jack Schaefer / Fred Erisman -- The Western writer : Jack Schaefer's use of the Western frontier / Robert Mikkelsen -- Settlement waves and coordinate forces in Shane / James C. Work -- Jack Schaefer : the evolution of pessimism / Michael Cleary -- The making of Shane : a story for all media / Michael T. Marsden -- The film : essays in criticism. Introduction / James C. Work and A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Shane : New York Times film review / Bosley Crowther -- Shane : Magill's survey of cinema review / Charles Albright, Jr. -- Shane : review / Pauline Kael -- Shane and Hud : two stories in search of a medium / James K. Folsom -- Savior in the saddle : the sagebrush testament / Michael T. Marsden -- The Olympian cowboy / Harry Schein ; translated by Ida M. Alcock -- A new direction / Jack Schaefer.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.

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