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- Title
The Norwegian Imagination of the American West as Presented in Louis Masterson's Morgan Kane.
- Authors
Aksnes, Karoline
- Abstract
A paper which examines the Nordic aspects in "Morgan Kane," a series of Norwegian Western by Louis Masterson, is presented. Topics covered include how Masterson adapted the Western genre that is aligned with the preferences of Norwegian readers, increasing amount of social realism in the series, comparison of the Western produced by Masterson with the U.S. Western and similarities between a Nordic Western and Nordic Noir.
- Subjects
WESTERN stories; NORWEGIAN fiction; NORWEGIAN authors; NORWEGIAN literature; SOCIAL realism in literature
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2019.0031