Item Detail
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4946
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5
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English
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Zane Grey in Zion : An Examination of His Supposed Anti-Mormonism
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1978
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18
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483-90
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"Zane Grey has been singularly unfortunate in his treatment by the literary critics. From the time his books began to hit the best seller lists, critics have persistently attacked his purple prose, his overly romanticized views of the West, his one-dimensional characters, and his formulaic plots. Consequently, Grey's novels survive in academic and literary circles as epitomes of sub literary fantasy unworthy of serious attention. Unhappy with that stereotype of a supposed creator of stereotypes, literary historians have recently reopened the case of Zane Grey vs. the critics. Their findings have not been uncritical, but they generally show that a serious reading of Grey's novels simply will not support the older hostile views." [Publisher's abstract]