The Western Reader

The Western Reader PDF Author: Jim Kitses
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.

The Western Reader

The Western Reader PDF Author: Jim Kitses
Publisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.

The Great Books Reader

The Great Books Reader PDF Author: John Mark Reynolds
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441259902
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
Great Books programs have become increasingly popular among Christian colleges, high schools, and even home schoolers. This one-of-a-kind book is designed for those who do not have the opportunity to attend such a program but are still interested in directly engaging with the Western Canon. It contains substantial excerpts from thirty of the most important books in history, with each excerpt followed by an essay placing the work in historical and Christian context. Readers can learn directly from such authors and thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, de Tocqueville, Freud, and Chesterton. Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine

Western Heritage

Western Heritage PDF Author: The Hillsdale College History Faculty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916308278
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Portable Western Reader

The Portable Western Reader PDF Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140230262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625

Book Description
The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape.

The Western Reader

The Western Reader PDF Author: Burgess and Morgan, publishers, Cincinnati
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

In the Distance

In the Distance PDF Author: Hernan Diaz
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0593850572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR 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 criminals, naturalists, religious fanatics, swindlers, American 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.
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