Author : Centennial Book Committee (Archer City, Texas)
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Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Mark Busby
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780929398341
This is the first major single-authored book in almost twenty years to examine the life and work of Texas' foremost novelist and to develop coherent patterns of theme, structure, symbol, imagery, and influence in Larry McMurtry's work. The study focuses on the novelist's relationship to the Southwest, theorizing that his writing exhibits a deep ambivalence toward his home territory. The course of his career demonstrates shifting attitudes that have led him toward, away from, and then back again to his home place and the "cowboy god" that dominates its mythology. The book utilizes original materials from five library special collections, as well as interviews with McMurtry, his family, and his friends, such as Ken Kesey.
Author : John Reilly
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
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Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated. Readers were initiated into the world of the modern cowboy with McMurtry's first novel Horseman Pass By. Nearly 35 years later McMurtry revisits his hometown project with his latest update on the characters who populated The Last Picture Show and Texasville in his most recent novel Duane's Depressed. This Critical Companion examines all 22 of McMurtry's works. By considering individual literary elements and overall construction of the novels, this analysis probes how McMurtry has given contemporary relevance to traditional elements of the Western story.
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Oklahoma
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Roads
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Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : John M. Curran
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Clothing and dress
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Author : Jonathan D. Bratten
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2020
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Cycling
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Author : Lois A. Glewwe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1625854137
Incorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.
