California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Theses Digitization Project John M. Pfau Library 1993 Larry McMurtry's argument with the cowboy myth Lynn Holleman Rudloff Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project Part of the American Literature Commons Recommended Citation Rudloff, Lynn Holleman, "Larry McMurtry's argument with the cowboy myth" (1993). Theses Digitization Project. 809. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/809 This Project is brought to you for free and open access by the John M. Pfau Library at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses Digitization Project by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 'LARRY McMURTRY'S ARGUMENT WITH THE COWBOY MYTH i. A The?IS Presented to the Faculty of California State University, San Bernardino In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements; for the Degree Master of Arts in English Com;Dosition by Lynn Hollemah I^^loff June 1993 LARRY McMURTRY'S ARGUMENT WITH THE C01hfBOY MYTH A ThesIS Presented to the Faculti'^ of California Stat University, San Bernardino by Lynn Hollema,n Rudloff June Approvei by: Jt«w Bruce Golden, Ctiair, English Date Jemifer Piandisi Clark Mayo 1993 by Lynn Holleriian Rudloff ABSTRi^CT Larry McMurtry's novels dra:matize the cowboy myth's effects on contemporary Westerners, but until 1985 he had not written about the Old West Since then, in three Old West novels, Larry McMurtry recj['eates the cowboy myth, with his contemporary novels providii|i'g the justificsition for recreating the myth. Moreover, ijiis essays provide the best frame through which to interprelp his novels, which reiterate indirectly the ideology made ex^licit in the essays.