ENG 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Magua
7 Sep 2016
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Go west, young man! myth, history and the frontier. Essentially two versions of the same story. 1st half is the story of search and rescue in the white european" world. 2nd half is the story of search and rescue in the native american world. Trying to look at the cultural differences. Book came out about 50 years after america became to be. First real novel to tell the story of america and how life is. Ashamed to have fallen into the track of imitation, i endeavoured to repay the wrong done to my own views, by producing a world that should be purely american, and of which love of country should be the theme - Cooper on his self-professedly bad- because un-american- first novel set in england (a letter to his countrymen [1834]). He wanted to tap into the inner patriotism of their readers. He wants the character, the setting and the story to exude american".
