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Sisters Brothers 2014-2015
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This Accident of Being Lost 2019-2020
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Black Bird 2005-2006
Deafening 2004-2005
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The MacEwan Book for 2014-15 is Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers
Selected Articles
Polic, Vanja. "Chapter Eight: The Sisters Brothers Pack Heat: Or How the Sisters Fared in the West." Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World. Eds. Ljubica Matek and Jasna Poljak Rehlicki. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars P
128-146. Web.
Reviews
From a variety of periodicals
Interviews and Videos
From the the 2011 Giller Prize
From the TV Book Club
Official Book Trailer
Wild West in Literature
Bold, Christine. The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power 1880-1924. New York : Oxford U P. 2013. EBSCOhost.
Burns, Ken, dir. The West. Paramount Home Entertainment. 2004. DVD.
Kowalewski, Michael., ed. Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.
Old West series by Time-Life Books
This print series includes DeWitt's inspiration, The Forty-Niners as well as The Gunfighters and The Women.
Scheer, Ron. How The West Was Written: Volume 1 Frontier Fiction 1880-1906. Freeville, NY : Beat to a Pulp, 2014. Print.
Spurgeon, Sara L. Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. College Station : Texas A&M U P, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1921. Project Gutenberg. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
White, John. Westerns. New York : Routledge 2011.
Witschi, Nicolas S. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Ebscohost Ebook.
Wild West in Film
Chaplin, Charlie. The Gold Rush. United Artists, 1942. DVD
Langford, Barry. "Revisiting the 'Revisionist' Western." Film & History 33.2 (2003): 26-35. Communication & Mass Media Complete.
Other Brothers in Literature
Feuer, Lois. "Happy Families: Repentance and Restoration in The Tempest and the Joseph Narrative." Philological Quarterly 76.(1997): 271-287. ProQuest.
Quinones, Ricardo J. The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature. Princeton: Princeton Legacy Library, 2014. Print.
Dark Humour in Literature
Coletta, Lisa. "British Modernism and Dark Humor." Precursors & Aftermaths 2.1 (2004): 40-54. OmniFile Full Text Select. Web. 2 July 2014.
Hobby, Blake, and Harold Bloom, eds. Dark Humor. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010. Ebscohost Ebook.
The Gold Rush
Clay, Karen, and Randall Jones. "Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush." Journal Of Economic History 68.4 (2008): 997-1027. Business Source Complete.
"The Gold Rush." Films On Demand. Films Media Group, 2006. Web. 2 July 2014.
Kowalewski, Michael. "Imagining the California Gold Rush: The Visual and Verbal Legacy." California History 1 (1992): 60. Jstor Arts & Sciences V.
Violence in Literature
Kowalewski, Michael. Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form In American Fiction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton U P, 1993. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Environmental Issues
Love, Glen A. Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2003. Print
Slovic, Scott, ed. Nature And The Environment. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2013. Ebscohost eBook.
Psychopathology
Hare, Robert & Craig Neumann. "Psychopathy: Assessment and Forensic Implications." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 54.12 (2009): 791-802. EBSCOhost.
MacDonald, Ann-Marie, Narr. The Psychopath Next Door. CBC Doc Zone. 27 Nov. 2014. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Including a link to take the test.
Ronson, Jon. The Psychopath Test : A Journey Through the Madness Industry. New York: Riverhead, 2012. Print
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