The Western Story As Literature
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The Western Story As Literature
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Author : William Henry Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Western Story As Literature written by William Henry Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Western stories categories.
Telling Western Stories
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Telling Western Stories written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American fiction categories.
What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling traditions and exploring the indelible images each has left in the public's mind over the past 125 years. Our images of cowboys, lawmen, outlaws, and Indians come from a collage of sources, including Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, Calamity Jane, Mary Hallock Foote, Geronimo, Mourning Dove, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Walter Noble Burns, John Ford, Louis L'Amour, Wallace Stegner, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Larry McMurtry. Etulain begins with the dominant image conveyed in Wild West shows and dime novels of the late nineteenth century -- the West as a place of adventure and danger. In the early twentieth century stories by women and Indians appeared, but they were soon overlooked and not rediscovered until the 1970s. The period from the 1920s to the 1950s represents the classic era of western movies and novels -- of cavalry charges to save the day and heroes in white hats. But since the 1960s a counter story has emerged, one of ambiguity and complexity that often turned upside down our notions about what really mattered in how we look at the West.
The American Western In Canadian Literature
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Author : Joel Deshaye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-15
The American Western In Canadian Literature written by Joel Deshaye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Canada, Western categories.
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary phenomenon. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
Child In The Valley
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Author : Gordy Sauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Child In The Valley written by Gordy Sauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with California categories.
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"--
A History Of Western Literature
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Author : J. M. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2008
A History Of Western Literature written by J. M. Cohen and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present from Russia to Mexico. his objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960s. Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations, arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original critism, A History of Western Literature immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition, the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work. "Especially for American or British readers who want to explore under sensible guidance the main lines of Western letters, this carefully wrought handbook is indispensable."--Library Journal. "Considering Mr. Cohen's vast scope, his achievement is commendable. The information he presents is accurate. His style is surprisingly readable...."--Modern Language Journal. J. M. Cohen (1903-1989) was a widely known critic and a translator of French and Spanish literature. He was born in London and graduated from Cambridge University. His versions of Don Quixote, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Rousseau's Confessions are recognized as among the finest modern translations.
The Classical Plot And The Invention Of Western Narrative
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Author : N. J. Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
The Classical Plot And The Invention Of Western Narrative written by N. J. Lowe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with History categories.
From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognised system of terminology in literary theory. The first part of the book draws on developments in narratology and cognitive science to propose a way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each.
The Western Story
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Author : Jon Tuska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Western Story written by Jon Tuska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Jon Tuska is the author or editor of numerous works about the American West, including Stories of the Far North (Nebraska 1998). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Western Stories
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Author : Jon Tuska
language : en
Publisher: Wings
Release Date : 1999
Western Stories written by Jon Tuska and has been published by Wings this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
A collection of western stories from American authors, presented in chronological order.
In The Distance
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Author : Hernan Diaz
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2024-03-05
In The Distance written by Hernan Diaz and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Fiction categories.
The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.
A History Of Western Literature
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Author : John Michael Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-09-01
A History Of Western Literature written by John Michael Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with categories.
The Whole Story Of Continental Writing In The Vernacular Tongues From The Days Of The Great Epics And Romances Of Chivalry To The Middle Of The Present Century.