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Humanities Book Group

The West: Image and Reality

A Reading/Discussion Series

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• This program has received funding from Utah Humanities.  Utah Humanities enriches our cultural, intellectual, and civic life by providing opportunities for all Utahns to explore life's most engaging questions and the wonders of the human experience.
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Thursday, 2 Feb 2023, 7 p.m. - West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Tompkins, Jane. Scholar: Tracey Smith, PhD, WSU. West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns By Tompkins, Jane 1993-04 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780195082685 CHECK CATALOG A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the American west have shaped the emotional lives of people in our time. Into this …More

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