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Exploding the Western

Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445927
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Western written by Sara L. Spurgeon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future

Exploding the Western

Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585444229
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Western written by Sara L. Spurgeon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier—the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other’s texts—continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western “mythic” tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon’s analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future.

Exploding Chippewas

Author : Mark Turcotte
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810151235
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Exploding Chippewas written by Mark Turcotte and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything this poet touches is volatile—the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the ghosts of memory and the dream of possible futures, all seem to burst into fragments. Mark Turcotte uses poetry to gather up the pieces—the shards of joy and grief, peace and doubt, strength and temptation, questions and answers—as he tries to define and rediscover what is lost when everyday life becomes explosive.

The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner

Author : Megan Riley McGilchrist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136604014
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner by : Megan Riley McGilchrist

Download or read book The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner written by Megan Riley McGilchrist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin land" of the explorers and pioneers, subject to masculine desires, and by others as a masculine space in which the feminine is neither desired nor appreciated. Both Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy focus on this landscape and environment; its spiritual, narrative, symbolic, imaginative, and ideological force is central to their work. In this study, McGilchrist shows how their various treatments of these issues relate to the social climates (pre- and post-Vietnam era) in which they were written, and how despite historical discontinuities, both Stegner and McCarthy reveal a similar unease about the effects of the myth of the frontier on American thought and life. The gendering of the landscape is revealed as indicative of the attempts to deny the failure of the myth, and to force the often numinous western landscape into parameters which will never contain it. Stegner's pre-Vietnam sensibility allows the natural world to emerge tentatively triumphant from the ruins of frontier mythology, whereas McCarthy's conclusions suggest a darker future for the West in particular and America in general. However, McGilchrist suggests that the conclusion of McCarthy's Border Trilogy, upon which her arguments regarding McCarthy are largely based, offers a gleam of hope in its final conclusion of acceptance of the feminine.

Lost in the New West

Author : Mark Asquith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349546
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the New West written by Mark Asquith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy. Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.

The South Western Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Exploding the Phone

Author : Phil Lapsley
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193757
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Phone written by Phil Lapsley and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI. The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a groundbreaking, captivating book that “does for the phone phreaks what Steven Levy’s Hackers did for computer pioneers” (Boing Boing). “An authoritative, jaunty and enjoyable account of their sometimes comical, sometimes impressive and sometimes disquieting misdeeds.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly researched.” —The Atlantic “A fantastically fun romp through the world of early phone hackers, who sought free long distance, and in the end helped launch the computer era.” —The Seattle Times

Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets

Author : Fred Watson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540051
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets written by Fred Watson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to space and matter near a black hole? Where did the moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Are we alone in the universe? In Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets, Fred Watson, an award-winning astronomer, presents the most up-to-date knowledge on hot topics in astronomy and space science, providing a fascinating and entertaining account of the latest research. Watson explains how to find invisible planets around other stars, why dark matter matters, and the future of citizen space travel, all while recounting the seismic shifts in understanding that have taken place during his illustrious career. The book features illuminating discussions of microbes in space; the dividing line between day and night; exploding stars and light echoes; fast radio bursts and signals from space; meteors, meteorites, and space dust; what happened to the Martian ocean; the seas and lakes of Titan; and the birth of the universe.

Western Electrician

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Western Electrician written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West of the American Dream

Author : Paul Christensen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967539
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book West of the American Dream written by Paul Christensen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.

The Western Review of Science and Industry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Review of Science and Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outside America

Author : Dan Moos
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655060
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Outside America written by Dan Moos and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of those excluded from the national narrative of the West. Dan Moos challenges both traditional and revisionist perspectives in his exploration of the role of the mythology of the American West in the creation of a national identity. While Moos concurs with contemporary scholars who note that the myths of the American West depended in part upon the exclusion of certain groups - African Americans, Native Americans, and Mormons - he notes that many scholars, in their eagerness to identify and validate such excluded positions, have given short shrift to the cultural power of the myths they seek to debunk. That cultural power was such, Moos notes, that these disenfranchised groups themselves sought to harness it to their own ends through the active appropriation of the terms of those myths in advocating for their own inclusion in the national narrative. that, because the construction of American culture was never designed to accommodate these outsiders, their writings display a division between their imagined place in the narrative of the nation and their effacement within the real West marked by intolerance and inequality.

Postmodernism and Islam

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113600582X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Islam written by Akbar S. Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come.

Exploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination

Author : John Koerner
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785358855
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination written by John Koerner and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of JFK, Jr., - accident or assassination? Exploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination presents evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate the only surviving son of President John F. Kennedy and considers the motives that many powerful forces had, to make sure he never set foot in the White House. Divided into two parts, Part One examines the potential motives the Bush family, the C.I.A., and perhaps even Israeli intelligence, had to eliminate JFK, Jr. Part Two systematically dismantles the official version of events, that JFK, Jr., crashed his plane due to pilot error, and examines both the evidence of a government cover-up at the crime scene, and the extensive eyewitness reports of an explosion that brought the aircraft down.

Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Child Over Human

Author : Carlos Soriano
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059509628X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Child Over Human written by Carlos Soriano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-05-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canyon Terry, 14, was enjoying life, growing up in his little hometown of Vassalboro. Popular and athletic, he was already achieving local fame as Buchanan High School's top JV wrestler. One day, he discovers that he possesses superhuman powers which give him tremendous physical strength, as well as the miraculous ability to heal the sick and raise the dead. But much to the boy's confusion, he lacks control over his powers, and is incapable of summoning them on his own. Canyon later learns that these same powers are now threatening to turn him into a demonic monster that no power on earth can stop. When his gift turns out to be a curse, Canyon must somehow seek out the mysterious beings who gave him his powers or, destroy himself to protect the ones he loves. Carlos Soriano grew up in California's Monterey Peninsula. After graduating from San Jose State University, he served in the US Air Force. He currently works as a web developer in Silicon Valley.

A case of Exploding Mangoes

Author : Mohammed Hanif
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002327
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A case of Exploding Mangoes written by Mohammed Hanif and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodes midway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA, the ISI, RAW, or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swilling jihadi colonel, was murdered by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It marks the debut of a brilliant new writer.