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Millions have read Larry McMurtry's novel, though few conciously understand the subtle underlying themes that charachterize his fiction. Roger Walton Jones examines McMurtry's lifelong interest in Victorian authors and their influence on his novels. Emphasizing the common sense of dislacement McMurtry shared with the Victorians, Jones identifies three Victoria themes by which McMurtry reconciles the reader to experience and gives his art a religious the individual's importance to society; the conflict between civilization and nature in an industrial age; and the attempt to find a basis for spirituality in a world without God or faith in organized religion. Jones explores these themes as they are played out in all of McMurtry's fiction, paying particular attention to The Last Pciture Show and Lonesome Dove . Unpublished letters and an early, unpublished short story shed light on the interpretation. In this thought-provoking anaylsis, Jones helps correct the injustice done McMurtry when his work has been ignored or treated with condescension by literary critics charmed by the convolutions of postermodernism. Readers of McMurtry's work, as well as students of Victorian literature, wil

Author

Jones, Roger Walton, 1953-

Publisher

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&m University Press, C1994.

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585174556

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction