Southwestern American Literature

Volume IV (Spring/Fall 1974)


The Grace of Pure Awareness:Katherine Anne Porter R. J. Gray	1

Frontier Robin Hood: Wilderness Civilization and The Half-Breed in Irving's A Tour of Praries William J. Scheick	14

Larry McMurtry and the Persistent Frontier Tim Summerlin	22

McMurtry's Women: "Eros [Libido, Caritas, and Philia] in [and out of] Archer County" Billie Phillips	29

The Western Writer: A Study of Larry McMurtry's All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers Barbara Granzow	37

The Trail Drive Novel: A Matter of Balance Richard C. Poulsen	53

Patterns of Redemption and The Failure of Irony: The Ox-Bow Incident and The Man Who Killed The Deer Garth McCann	62

Is Dallas Burning? Notes on Recent Texas Fiction Don Graham	68

Tony's Dreams - An Important Dimension in Bless Me, Ultima Amy Waggoner	74

The Chicano Graffiti of Los Angeles Jose R. Reyna	80

Lennie as Christian in Of Mice and Men Lee Dacus	87


Reviews

Texas Homes pf the Ninteenth Century by Todd Webb and Drury Blakely Hugh Kirkpatrick	92

The Last Running by John Graves M. E. Bradford	93

The Proxy by Violette Newton Richard B. Sale	94

Southwest Heritage: A Literary History with Bibliographies by Mabel Major and T. M. Pearce Everett A. Gillis	96

Oklahoma Crude by Marc Norman Mary Dell McCrory	97

El Lenguaje de Los Chicanos: Regional and Social Characteristics of Language Used by Mexican Americans by Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Andrew D. Cohen, and Anthony F. Beltramo Charles B. Martin	98


Contributors	101

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