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Textual Authenticity and the Contemporary West: John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 3, September 2014
- pp. 35-51
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0028
- Article
- Additional Information
A critical study of John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains in the context of recent debates about the status of regional studies in a postmodern culture, this essay asks what it means to be authentically Western in a late-twentieth-century culture comprising simulacra.