Download or read book A Literary Tour Guide to the United States West and Midwest written by Rita Stein and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Literary Tour Guide to the United States written by Rita Stein and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual guide will take the tourist or the armchair traveler to literary landmarks throughout the South and Southwest. The great tradition of Southern literature comes alive in the homes of writers like Sidney Lanier, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Kate Chopin, and William Faulkner. Included are many early American authors like Captain John Smith and William Byrd of Virginia, Davy Crockett of Tennessee, and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as the major figures of twentieth-century writing, like Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe, and Ernest Hemingway. The rich and colorful writing of the Southwest is also fully covered--from Zane Grey's hunting lodge in Arizona and the locales of the works of J. Frank Dobie to the mystical landscape of New Mexico that inspired Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence. Unexpected and offbeat places are also described: St. Simons Island, Georgia, where Fanny Kemble wrote a fascinating journal; the Rugby Restoration in Tennessee; Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, from where Washington Irving set off on a trip across the prairie; the settings of writings about the Indians of the Southwest. Here is an indispensable guidebook for the literary traveler that's also a handy desk reference for students.--Jacket flap.
Download or read book A Literary Tour Guide to the United States West and Midwest written by Rita Stein and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Booklover s Guide to the Midwest written by Greg Holden and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rich literary tradition, the Midwest provides a wealth of opportunities for bibliophiles to retrace the steps of their favorite writers and characters. The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest is a treasure map in book form, pointing the way to the heartland's most interesting literary sites. Walk down the actual Main Street that Sinclair Lewis described in his classic novel, or among the gravestones that inspired Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. See Laura Ingalls Wilder's ''little House in the Big Woods'' and get lost in the very same cave that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn explored. Visit Petoskey, Michigan, the setting of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. Other poets and writers put readers in touch with pond life, sand dune architecture, Native Americans, and the great expanse of the prairie. Descriptions of each states' sites are arranged so that travelers can drive or walk from place to place with ease.
Download or read book A Literary Tour Guide to the United States written by Emilie C. Harting and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary Guide to the United States written by Stewart H. Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated tour of the various Americas portrayed by writers.
Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature written by Richard W. Etulain and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recentness of most listings in this bibliography illustrates the growing interest in western literature in the last decades.
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Travel Book written by Jon O. Heise and published by New York : R. R. Bowker Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Midwest in Film and Literature written by Adam R. Ochonicky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do works from film and literature—Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example—imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. Using the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner as a starting point, this book establishes a succession of Midwestern filmic and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century and argues that the manifold properties of nostalgia have continually transformed popular understandings and ideological uses of the Midwest's place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual objects: the projection of nostalgia onto physical landscapes and into the cultural sphere (nostalgic spatiality); nostalgia as a cultural force that regulates behaviors, identities, and appearances (nostalgic violence); and the progressive potential of nostalgia to generate an acknowledgment and possible rectification of ways in which the flawed past negatively affects the present (nostalgic atonement). While developing these new conceptions of nostalgia, Ochonicky reveals how an under-examined area of regional study has received critical attention throughout the histories of American film and literature, as well as in related materials and discourses. From the closing of the Western frontier to the polarized political and cultural climate of the 21st century, this book demonstrates how film and literature have been and continue to be vital forums for illuminating the complex interplay of regionalism and nostalgia.
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States written by Eugene Ehrlich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information about the birthplaces, homes, and workplaces of over fifteen hundred literary figures from Colonial times to the present.
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lies Across America written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.
Download or read book Wellsprings of Imagination written by Mark I. West and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An armchair tour of the homes of children's authors, such as Lucy Maud Montgomery, Robert Louis Stevenson and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Essays on each author's home focus on the relationship between that home and the books that were written (or imagined) there.
Download or read book Reference Sources 1981 written by S. Balachandran and published by . This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sleeping with Literary Lions written by Peggy Van Hulsteyn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAV Van Hulsteyn, a travel editor for Mademoiselle, entertainingly describes literary homes/haunts/museums and any available bed and breakfasts in or near them. She has organized her work by state (though only 35 of the 50 are included, with California having the most entries). Sometimes she lists only a site and no accommodations. To be included, an author has to be deceased and be one that Van Hulsteyn enjoys reading (Poe appears five times, Twain seven, and Van Hulsteyn says she had to look hard to find the 12 women writers she added in). Location entries include whom to contact, hours of operation, entrance fees, and so on, and what one will find there. The bed-and-breakfast entries give room-rate ranges, number of rooms and bathrooms, wheelchair accessibility, and the like. The descriptions are delightful, information-filled, positively critical, and free of any apparent bias.
