TY - JOUR
AU - Temple, Judy Nolte, --
AB -  Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi, eds., Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2013. 294 pp. Paper, $35.00. Paul Stasi and Jennifer Greiman, eds., The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 224 pp. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $34.95. The three-year-long hbo series Deadwood, although it abruptly ended in 2006, has generated a stampede of stimulating scholarly and popular responses. Numerous articles in a variety of scholarly journals and conference panels galore attest to the series' ongoing impact. Two collections of essays published in 2013, Dirty Words in Deadwood and The Last Western, showcase diverse perspectives--in writings that are inevitably uneven, as in any such eclectic endeavor. In general the Dirty Words in Deadwood essayists utilize literary analysis. Coeditor Melody Graulich notes of the contributors that "the scholars writing in this volume, all literary or film critics, explore Deadwood as they would a novel by Hawthorne or a play by O'Neill . . ." (xxi). Topics range across film, masculinity, music, female characters, and emotion. Each essay contains an introduction by the editors, which creates the ambiance of a lively, interconnected conversation. This tone is initiated 
TI - Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern ed. by Melody Graulich, Nicolas S. Witschi, and: The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire ed. by Paul Stasi, Jennifer Greiman (review)
JF - Western American Literature
DA - 2015-02-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-nebraska-press/dirty-words-in-deadwood-literature-and-the-postwestern-ed-by-melody-ych7XkQB4u
SP - 399
EP - 403
VL - 49
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -