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ID: 300254815
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300254815

 

Record Type: concept
western (literary genre) (<genres for literature>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Genre of novels, short stories, comic books, etc., characterized by a setting in the American West during the US western expansion, usually the 1850s through the early 1900s; the western genre reached its greatest popularity in the early and middle 20th century. The genre is primarily an American creation, although the western had its counterparts in the gaucho literature of Argentina and in tales of the settlement of the Australian outback.
 
Terms:
western (literary genre) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,B)
western (literary genre) (Spanish-P,D,U,U)
westerns (literary genre) (C,U,English,AD,U,PN)
westerns (genre in de kunsten) (Dutch-P,D,U,U)
western stories (literary genre) (C,U,LC,English,UF,U,U)
Westerns (literary works) (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
Western (literary work) (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
Western (literary work) (Dutch,AD,U,U)
Western fiction (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
西部 (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
xī bù (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
xi bu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
hsi pu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VW

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Associated Concepts Facet
Associated Concepts Facet
Hierarchy of Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
.... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of <concepts in the arts and humanities>
........ <concepts in the arts and humanities> (G)
Hierarchy of <genres in literature and performing arts>
............ <genres in literature and performing arts> (G)
Hierarchy of <genres for literature>
................ <genres for literature> (G)
Hierarchy of western (literary genre)
.................... western (literary genre) (G)

Additional Notes:
Chinese (traditional) ..... 探討北美西部拓疆生活的文學、口語和電影類型,特別指十九世紀。 
Dutch ..... Literair en mondeling genre dat met name het leven in de 19e eeuw aan de Noord-Amerikaanse kolonisatiegrens behandelt. 
Spanish ..... Género literario, oral o de película cinematográfica que trata la vida de la frontera occidental de Norte América, particularmente en el siglo XIX. 

Related concepts:
distinguished from ....  western (motion picture genre)
..................................  (<genres for motion pictures>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300417766]

Sources and Contributors:
西部............  [AS-Academia Sinica Preferred]
...........  TELDAP database (2009-)
hsi pu............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  TELDAP database (2009-)
Western (literary work)............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
.........................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.........................................  ALA, Subject Access to Microcomputer Software (1986) 27
.........................................  Bénet's Reader's Encyclopedia (1987) 1057
.........................................  Carpenter and Pritchard, Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (1984) 565
.........................................  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-) Western (television programs)
.........................................  Frye et al., Harper Handbook to Literature (1985) 484
.........................................  Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
.........................................  Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1993)
.........................................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
western (literary genre)............  [CDBP-SNPC Preferred, VP Preferred]
.........................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
.........................................  Garfield, Western Films (1988)
.........................................  Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-)
.........................................  Reid, Westerns: Guide to the Best (and Worst) Western Movies (2011)
.........................................  Zubiour Carreño, Historia del Cine y otros medios audiovisuales (1999)
Western fiction............  [VP]
.............................  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-)
.............................  Contributed as a candidate term NALLON - 11/94
.............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 451 for "Western stories," sh 85146287
Westerns (literary works)............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
westerns (literary genre)............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP]
............................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
............................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
western stories (literary genre)............  [VP]
.....................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85146287
xi bu............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
..............  TELDAP database (2009-)
xī bù............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
..............  TELDAP database (2009-)
 
Subject: .....  [AS-Academia Sinica, CDBP-SNPC, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  AAT-Ned (1994-)
............  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-) Westerns; West (U.S.) -- Fiction; Western films; Western stories
............  Contributed as a candidate term NALLON - 11/94; Westerns
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
.......... Legacy AAT data
Chinese (traditional) .......... [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......... TELDAP database (2009-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
Spanish .......... [CDBP-SNPC]
.......... TAA database (2000-)

 

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