This essay treats the role of violence in plots centered on mobility in recent American westerns. The epic journey is one of the central motifs of classical westerns. After the 1970s, when the genre was declared “dead”, two novels questioned the romantic halo of the traveling heroes and opened up the deconstruction of the western journey: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, both published in 1985. Radicalizing revisionist works of the 1950s, both novels displace the stereotypical "regeneration through violence" pattern and influenced the western works of the last 20 years.

On deromanticized journeys in American Late Western

ROSSO, Stefano
2015-01-01

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This essay treats the role of violence in plots centered on mobility in recent American westerns. The epic journey is one of the central motifs of classical westerns. After the 1970s, when the genre was declared “dead”, two novels questioned the romantic halo of the traveling heroes and opened up the deconstruction of the western journey: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, both published in 1985. Radicalizing revisionist works of the 1950s, both novels displace the stereotypical "regeneration through violence" pattern and influenced the western works of the last 20 years.
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Rosso, Stefano
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