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Author | : Richard A. Holland |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292714297 |
Provides personality profiles, historical essays, and first-person reminiscences of the history of the University of Texas. Topics include recurring attacks on the school by politicians and regents, the institution's history of segregation and struggles to become a diverse university, the sixties' protest movements, and the Tower sniper shooting.
Author | : David King Dunaway |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826323378 |
The accompanying CD provides excerpts from the interviews with the authors.
Author | : Sylvia Ann Grider |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781585442935 |
A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.
Author | : Sylvia Ann Grider |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780890967652 |
A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
Author | : Joyce Gibson Roach |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780929398327 |
A volume that may be savored in small sips or large gulps, from such writers as Elmer Kelton, Betsy Colquitt, and many more.
Author | : Richard W. Etulain |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826364462 |
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.
Author | : Raphael James Cristy |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780826332851 |
Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as "local color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russell's writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russell's art is often misinterpreted as mere longing for a fading open-range west, but his writings tell a different story. Cristy shows how Russell amused his peers with stories that also delivered sharp observations of Euro-American suppression of Indians and humorous treatment of wilderness and range issues plus the emergence of women and urbanization as bewildering agents of change in the modern West. "A welcome departure from the usual biographies and coffee table volumes on Russell and his art. . . . [Cristy] deals with an important, yet relatively unexplored, aspect of the career of one of the most influential interpreters of the American West."--Byron Price, Director, C. M. Russell Center for the Study of Art
Author | : Samuel Nyal Henrie |
Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1604940212 |
Uncommon Education traces the evolution of Prescott College. In this compelling work, Samuel Henrie and others reveal what led to the inception of this special institution, the philosophy behind it, and a rare curriculum that includes adventure education, social and ecological justice fieldwork, and other hands-on and unique educational opportunities. "Sam Henrie has made an immense contribution to higher education by chronicling this grand, ongoing adventure in learning. Prescott College's hands-on, feet-in-the-field approach not only makes far more sense than the cattle calls that pass for education at most places, but its amazing resilience and resurrection is one of the most hopeful stories for our times-a true tale of how good ideas really can win if we never give up." -Alan Weisman, Laureate Professor of Journalism, University of Arizona, retired Professor of Writing at Prescott College, author of The World Without Us, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, and other works
Author | : Judy Alter |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0875654495 |
When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the New York Times called a “novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and financially troubled ranches.” Kelton was also a modest, kind man, always willing to advise a struggling writer or write a blurb for a first time published author, or assign publishing rights to his six masterpieces to a small university press. TCU Press owes a great debt of gratitude to Kelton, and this volume, Elmer Kelton: Memories and Essays, attempts to explore just what it is that made Kelton its leading author. Editors Judy Alter and James Ward Lee gathered together a group of Kelton aficionados who had either published or taught or sold his books, or were simply friends. In several meetings, they divided up the main themes of Kelton’s writing: Alter provides the overview of Kelton’s career; Felton Cochran, longtime owner of Cactus Books in San Angelo, describes how the friendship between bookstore owner and author grew over the years; Ricky Burk, pastor of the church from which Kelton was buried, talks about the man’s influence in his community; Kelton’s son, Steve, explains how Kelton’s career as journalist permeated his novels; Ruth McAdams, who has taught Kelton for years, explores how he deals with the themes of endurance and change; Joyce Roach delicately covers how race and ethnicity figure in Kelton’s plots and the development of his unforgettable characters; Lee gives readers his inimitable take on the Hewey Calloway Trilogy—The Good Old Boys, The Smiling Country, and Six Bits a Day; and Bob J. Frye takes a wry look at Kelton’s use of humor throughout his career. The book also contains Kelton’s own view of the history of the Western novel, a response to revisionist criticism. And finally Cochran provides us a list of most, not all, of Elmer Kelton’s extraordinary body of work.
Author | : Dave Oliphant |
Publisher | : Wings Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0916727602 |
"Harbingers of Books to Come is more than a mere chronicle of achievements. It is also a love story. Dave Oliphant is one of those lucky poets who married his muse, Maria, whom he met in a library in Santiago, Chile, often led and occasionally pushed the poet into terra incognita, from which he returned with literary riches." --Book Jacket.