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Book Synopsis Cyrenius Schenck, Prairie Patriarch, 1828-1909 by : John Bowman Watson
Download or read book Cyrenius Schenck, Prairie Patriarch, 1828-1909 written by John Bowman Watson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyrenius Schenck was born 15 July 1828 in Butler, Ohio. His parents were Daniel Schenck and Jane McNealy. He married Mildred Hargis Reeder (1828-1910), daughter of Daniel Reeder and Decinda MacNeil, 30 October 1847 in Rockville, Indiana. They had nine children. He died 6 June 1909 in Preston, Kansas.
Download or read book Dry Water written by Robert J. C. Stead and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-19 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of 1929. His life parallels the growth and development of Manitoba during the same period. Stead considered Dry Water, written in 1934–1935, to be his crowning achievement. He was unable to find a publisher for it during his lifetime, although an abridged edition was published by Tecumseh Press in 1983. This new edition includes the complete typescript, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes that place this novel in its proper literary and historical context.
Book Synopsis Patriarch of the Prairie by : George Sexton Pease
Download or read book Patriarch of the Prairie written by George Sexton Pease and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coyote Country by : Arnold E. Davidson
Download or read book Coyote Country written by Arnold E. Davidson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most North Americans--Canadians as well as Americans--the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson shows in this groundbreaking study, a number of Canada's most interesting and experimental Western writers parody, reverse, or otherwise defuse the paraphernalia of the classic U.S. Western. Lacking both a real and imagined frontier--Canadian settlers rode trains into the new territory, already policed by Mounties--the writers of Canadian Westerns were set a different task from their American counterparts and were subsequently freed to create some of the most complex and engrossing fiction yet produced in Canada. Davidson details the evolution of the U.S. and Canadian Western forms, tracing the divergence between the two as Canadian writers responded to their unique historical circumstances by reinventing the West as well as the Western and establishing a new literary landscape where author and reader could work out new possibilities of being. Surveying a range of texts by Canada's most innovative writers, with special attention to women writers and Native stories of Coyote, he provides close readings of novels by Howard O'Hagan, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, Aritha van Herk, Anne Cameron, Peter Such, W. O. Mitchell, Beatrice Culleton, and Thomas King. A unique study, Coyote Country offers at one and the same time a theory of Canadian Western fiction, a history of crosscultural paradigms of the West as manifested in novels, and an intensive reading of some of Canada's best literature.
Download or read book Unnamed Country written by Dick Harrison and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1977 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have an idea of what the Great Plains did to the people who settled there but know little about the analogous process north of the 49th parallel, or how it was reflected in fiction. Dick Harrison's Unnamed Country fills this gap. Harrison traces the varying literary responses to the Canadian prairies, from the bewilderment of the first English-speaking visitors, who saw the country in essentially negative terms -- no wood, no water -- down to the contemporary novelists who are employing sophisticated modem fictional techniques to reinterpret the whole experience from a new perspective. Between these two ends of the literary continuum he finds the early writers of fiction too loaded down with what he calls "excess cultural baggage" brought from Britain or eastern Canada to see the country as it was; the early twentieth-century writers, bemused by the myth of the garden, who portrayed the prairies subdued and fruitful; the prairie realists of the 1920s and 1930s, akin to O. E. Rolvaag in their tragic view; and their contemporaries, the popular novelists, who depicted the pioneering process in more affirmative tones.
Book Synopsis In Due Season by : Christine van der Mark
Download or read book In Due Season written by Christine van der Mark and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local Métis and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved with a Métis lover. This novel expands the patriarchal canon of Canadian prairie fiction by depicting the agency of a successful female settler and, as noted by Dorothy Livesay, was “one of the first, if not the first Canadian novel wherein the plight of the Native Indian and the Métis is honestly and painfully recorded.” The afterword by Carole Gerson and Janice Dowson provides substantial information about author Christine van der Mark and situates her under-acknowledged book within the contexts of Canadian social, literary, and publishing history.
Book Synopsis Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier by : Carol Fairbanks
Download or read book Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier written by Carol Fairbanks and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four essays provide useful introductions to the land and the people, the history, and the fiction of the grasslands of Canada and the United States. Annotations direct readers and researchers to relevant materials in history and literature. ...An excellent bibliography...good interpretative essays...--WOMEN'S DIARIES
Book Synopsis Prairie Patriarch by : Wendy Jane Owen
Download or read book Prairie Patriarch written by Wendy Jane Owen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Farm Novel in North America by : Florian Freitag
Download or read book The Farm Novel in North America written by Florian Freitag and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine. From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, some of the most famous works of American, English Canadian, and French Canadian literature belongto the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to its apogee in French Canada around the middleof the twentieth. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a large number of farm novels written in French and English, Freitag examines how North American farm novels draw on the history of farming in nineteenth-centuryNorth America as well as on the national self-conceptions of the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, portraying farmers as national icons and the farm as a symbolic space of the American, English Canadian, and FrenchCanadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative look at a genre that helped to spatialize North American national dreams. Florian Freitag is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Book Synopsis Sexualizing Power in Naturalism by : Irene Gammel
Download or read book Sexualizing Power in Naturalism written by Irene Gammel and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a revisionary reading of German, Canadian, and American texts such as Fanny Essler, Settlers of the Marsh, and Sister Carrie, Gammel (English, U. of Prince Edward Island) attributes to naturalism, a predominantly male genre, the appropriation of a disruptive female sexuality not so much to "liberate" it from Victorian repression as to contain it within the male boundaries of naturalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Prairie Patriarch by : Rosemary J. Erickson
Download or read book Prairie Patriarch written by Rosemary J. Erickson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Erickson's memoir focuses on the titular "Prairie Patriarch": her father, Dewey Erickson. Dewey was born in the early 1900s and lived to see the world change around him. He became head of a family who loved him and imparted lessons that his daughter never forgot"--
Book Synopsis The American Abraham by : Warren Motley
Download or read book The American Abraham written by Warren Motley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career. Whereas most studies of Cooper have centered on the figure of the Leatherstocking - that solitary model of the self-sufficient American hero untrammeled by civilization - this book examines Cooper's interest in the pioneer patriarchs who built new societies in the wilderness. Throughout his career Cooper explored an essential American problem: how to achieve the right balance between freedom and authority. He did this by retelling the story of the frontier settlement and thereby assessing its successes and failures. Like other writers in the decades before the Civil War, Cooper struggled with the legacy of the Revolutionary fathers - a legacy made more personal in Cooper's case by his father's role as a frontier land developer, judge, and Federalist politician. This book breaks new ground by relating Cooper's artistic development, and his ideas about authority in society, to his efforts to become independent of his father.
Download or read book White Civility written by Daniel Coleman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness emerged in Canada that was heavily influenced by Britishness. Examining four allegorical figures that recur in a wide range of Canadian writings between 1820 and 1950 - the Loyalist fratricide, the enterprising Scottish orphan, the muscular Christian, and the maturing colonial son - Coleman outlines a genealogy of Canadian whiteness that remains powerfully influential in Canadian thinking to this day. Blending traditional literary analysis with the approaches of cultural studies and critical race theory, White Civility examines canonical literary texts, popular journalism, and mass market bestsellers to trace widespread ideas about Canadian citizenship during the optimistic nation-building years as well as during the years of disillusionment that followed the First World War and the Great Depression. Tracing the consistent project of white civility in Canadian letters, Coleman calls for resistance to this project by transforming whiteness into wry civility, unearthing rather than disavowing the history of racism in Canadian literary culture.
Book Synopsis Canadians and Americans by : Katherine L. Morrison
Download or read book Canadians and Americans written by Katherine L. Morrison and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using specific works by recognized authors of their time, Morrison considers the role of religion and the church, violence and the law, and humor and satire, in the literature of both countries. The book also explores the role of women, race, and class in the literature of both countries. It concludes with a discussion of the tenacity of national myths, and draws some tentative conclusions."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Patriarchs of the Prairie by : Ethel Johnson Cherry
Download or read book Patriarchs of the Prairie written by Ethel Johnson Cherry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about the experiences of the Hagerman family of immigrant Germans who come from Europe to the US Mid-West in the post-Civil-War period. Maurice, the patriarch of the family, is cultivated, but largely self-taught. He is a natural leader, a problem solver, and is energetically pursuing a decent life for his family. He combines a strong sense of practicality with the daring of the pioneer. He is open to new ways and a widening circle of new and diverse friendships.Like most of the immigrants on their transoceanic voyage, they come with no capital, but many have been preceded by relatives or villagers willing to help them relocate. These new communities are dependent populations from the start, but most of them are determined not to remain so. We are introduced to some of the patterns that permit the new immigrants to establish themselves, as the most able bodied men scout out opportunities for acquiring their own land through homesteading, and the rest of the families aid each other to settle in the more developed towns until they can reunite on the frontier.The combined efforts of the Hagermans permit them steadily to improve their education, especially their knowledge of English, and their general circumstances, until their wheat farm, the first in this region of Southwestern Kansas, is well enough developed to give them security and some comfort. They serve as something of a model, generating accolades that reach even to the old country, perhaps as something of a myth.This patriarch -- and he definitely is that--is enough of a craftsman to help build the family dugout, and subsequent home, and their church. He is curious and innovative enough to seek out information about improved farming techniques and technologies, and resourceful enough to find and create the means to acquire and utilize them. The family members are all kindhearted, generous of spirit, and courageous enough to venture into the new land and life. The mother teaches music. One of her daughters teaches elementary school, including music. The eldest son emerges as a manager of the local granary, and leader of a brass band. The settlers have a strong sense of Christian community.The entire Hagerman family has a strong sense of rectitude and fairness, but little knowledge of the history or culture of the indigenous Indians. They establish reasonably good working relationships with some of the Native American population of the area where they settle, including a Caucasian “adopted Indian.” Such relationships prove to be crucial to their own survival, and somewhat beneficial to a few of the Native persons who remained in the area after the main body of their tribe had been earlier decimated, or pushed to move, or “remove,” away from the encroaching settlers.Over the course of the three generations that the story covers, we are given an understanding of the requirements for settling, taming, cultivating, preserving, and prospering from the land the homesteading American population took over in the Mid-West. We are introduced to the hardships, the abuses, the triumphs, the drawbacks and the benefits that came with the “Americanization” of the Mid-West.This is a truly American story, however narrow and singular a slice it is of that jagged history story-line. It is told by an author with strong roots in the region, and strong family ties to various of the populations about which she has written. However, this is not a story about race – either of the immigrants, or of their indigenous predecessors, or the occasional Black individual or family that appears in the saga. It is a story about individual character, multi-cultural legacies, and the evolving American culture, told in an interesting fashion, with accessible language, honed craft, familiar ideas and experiences, and with real moral instruction. It is very suitable for serious young readers, yet an interesting read for adult readers. The cover quotes a Kansan reviewer's very high praise.
Download or read book Configuration written by E. D. Blodgett and published by Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canadian Literature in English by : W. J. Keith
Download or read book Canadian Literature in English written by W. J. Keith and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. J. Keith has chosen to ignore utterly both the `popular' at the one extreme (Robert Service, Lucy Maud Montgomery) as well as the `avant-garde' at the other (bpnichol, Anne Carson) in favour of those authors whose style lends itself to the simple pleasure of reading, and to that end Keith dedicates his history to `all those -- including those of the general reading public whose endangered status is much lamented -- who recognize and celebrate the dance of words.'
