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B'Ars And Catamounts: A Study Of Davy Crockett Through Genre And Medium, Jack Fieweger Apr 2021

B'Ars And Catamounts: A Study Of Davy Crockett Through Genre And Medium, Jack Fieweger

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This project seeks to investigate and discuss the changes and variations that have occurred to the mythology of David Crockett over the course of time. Initially appearing as a literary character in 1833, the likeness of Crockett has appeared in a myriad of different texts including: biographies, almanacs, plays, dime novels, comics, television shows, and films. The project attempts to discern how these different iterations of medium and genre altered the mythology of David Crockett. In order to methodologically understand these changes, this project makes use of W.T. Lhamon’s concept known as the Lore Cycle. Lhamon identified that lore diffuses …