Download or read book Sundancers and River Demons written by Conger Beasley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- 1991 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement
Download or read book Home Ground written by Barry Lopez and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.
Download or read book Messiah written by Conger Jr. Beasley and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago Francis Schlatter was one of the best-known figures in the Southwest. In this gripping and powerful narrative, based on contemporary newspaper accounts and a memoir that Schlatter dictated, Beasley, Jr. reconstructs the life and times of this remarkable man.
Download or read book Mapping the Invisible Landscape written by Kent C. Ryden and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes."
Download or read book Updating the Literary West written by and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth." The editors of the Literary History of the American West (TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes Updating the Literary West, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece. In the ten years since publication of LHAW, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary stream. A variety of cultural viewpoints have developed, along with new tactics for literary study. New authors have risen to prominence, and the range of subjects has changed and widened. Updating the Literary West looks at topics ranging from western classics to cowboys and Cadillacs and considers children's literature, ethnicity, environmental writing, gender issues and other topics in which change has been rapid since publication of LHAW. This volume again affirms the West's literary legitimacy--status hard earned by the Western Literary Association--and the lasting place of popular western writing as part of the growing and changing literary--and American--experience. An excellent reference for a wide range of readers and an invaluable resource for scholars and libraries. Selected list of contributors: James Maguire Fred Erisman Susan J. Rosowski Gerald Haslam Tom Pilkington A. Carl Bredahl Richard Slotkin John G. Cawelti Robert F. Gish Ann Ronald Mick McAllister
Download or read book Outdoor America written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Illuminated History of the Future written by Curtis White and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, disturbing scenarios abound. Beverly Brown's allegorical "Gardener" conjures up a threatened and threatening paradise where the menacing overlord, obsessed with his goal of "parasite control," brutalizes plants and subordinates rather than nurturing them. Constance Pierce's "In the Garden of the Sunbelt Arts Preserve" depicts an artists' colony that is a home where no one belongs, certainly not the narrator, who filches a beer with someone else's name on it. Art overruns life in Conger Beasley Jr.'s "Japan Invades America"; he also contributes the weird "Head of a Traveler". Gerald Vizenor, Edward Kleinschmidt, David Wong Louie and Martha Baer are among the contributors.
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Download or read book Nature s New Voices written by John A. Murray and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature nonfiction is the major prose genre of the late 20th century, wherein good writers take literature where it has not been before. This inspiring selection of worksure writers including Gretel Erhlich, John Daniel, Jan DeBlieu, Rick Bass, James D. Houston, Terry Tempest Williams, and others.
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature Walks written by Cathy A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything visitors want to know about these parks, including their histories, plant and animal life, and conservation issues. Also includes field guides, life lists, and stunning color photos. Writer/artist Cathy Johnson journeys through the mountains, the desert, the seacoast, and the prairie, chronicling with words and sketches all she discovers.
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