Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951000745966L
The Literary Northwest
Anonim
The Literary Northwest
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Northwest Passages
Bruce Barcott
Author : Bruce Barcott
Publisher : Seattle : Sasquatch Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032228507
Northwest Passages by Bruce Barcott Pdf
Spanning 200 years, Northwest Passages brings together thoughts on the region and its people from such notable writers and personalities as George Vancouver, Chief Seattle, Rudyard Kipling, Raymond Carver, Mary McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Sallie Tisdale. Northwesterners, surmises editor Bruce Barcott, are loners and individualists. The lives and writings of these people are inextricably tied to the land and its natural forces. Through historical and contemporary fiction, essays, poetry, and journals, Northwest Passages reveals the underlying spirit that shapes the Northwest identity, and the beauty of both its inner and outer landscapes.
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314720
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Pdf
From the Orange Prize winning author of HomeAcclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.'I love and have lived with this book . . . it holds a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of 20th century American fiction.' Paul Bailey'I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.' Doris Lessing
Ridgerunner
Gil Adamson
Author : Gil Adamson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006570
Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson Pdf
Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback. November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back — at any cost. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.
Making Waves
Trevor Carolan
Author : Trevor Carolan
Publisher : Anvil Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 1897535295
Making Waves by Trevor Carolan Pdf
Distinguished in part by its attention to language of place, natural science, local flora and fauna, land and seascapes, and receptivity to aboriginal forebears, much of the literature from British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest region of the US is increasingly informed by cross-border and multicultural perspectives. Within the context of the region's still relatively young written hsitory, these vivid signifiers may be regarded as effectively constituting a previously undefined literacy of place. The nature of the material is diverse and the aim has been to compile a kind of nurse-log compendium-an anthology rich in critical thinking, archival memory, creation myths, and homage to celebrated elders of the region's literary tribe. From this trail-clearing work, further explorations can begin."The book is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field and an instigation to further critical inquiry into multiple literary traditions of the Northwest." - Prairie Fire
Eardrums
Tyler Whitney
Author : Tyler Whitney
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140233
Eardrums by Tyler Whitney Pdf
In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics of Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Detlev von Liliencron, and Peter Altenberg drew on this blurring of martial and civilian soundscapes in traumatic and performative repetitions of war. At the same time, Richard Huelsenbeck assaulted audiences in Zurich with his “sound poems,” which combined references to World War I, colonialism, and violent encounters in urban spaces with nonsensical utterances and linguistic detritus—all accompanied by the relentless beating of a drum on the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire. Eardrums is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is not only a new way of understanding the sonic impulses behind key literary texts from the period. It also outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise, which will be of interest to scholars across literary studies, media theory, sound studies, and the history of science.
Tales of the Northwest
William Joseph Snelling
Author : William Joseph Snelling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0808404180
Tales of the Northwest by William Joseph Snelling Pdf
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The North-West Is Our Mother
Jean Teillet
Author : Jean Teillet
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443450140
The North-West Is Our Mother by Jean Teillet Pdf
There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844)
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393083897
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Pdf
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141939230
White Teeth by Zadie Smith Pdf
An unforgettable portrait of London and one of the most talked about debuts of all time! 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Guardian On New Years Day 1975, the day of his almost-suicide, life said yes to Archie Jones. Not OK or 'You-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started'. A resounding affirmative. Promptly seizing his second life by the horns, Archie meets and marries Clara Bowden, a Caribbean girl twenty-eight years his junior. Thus begins a tale of friendship, of love and war, of three culture and three families over three generations . . . ***** 'Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times 'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph 'An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious . . . I was delighted' Salman Rushdie
On Sacred Ground
Nicholas O’Connell
Author : Nicholas O’Connell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295803418
On Sacred Ground by Nicholas O’Connell Pdf
On Sacred Ground explores the literature of the Northwest, the area that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Siskiyou Mountains. The Northwest exhibits astonishing geographical diversity and yet the entire bioregion shares a similarity of climate, flora, and fauna. For Nicholas O’Connell, the effects of nature on everyday Northwest life carry over to the region's literature. Although Northwest writers address a number of subjects, the relationship between people and place proves the dominant one, and that has been true since the first tribes settled the region and began telling stories about it, thousands of years ago. Indeed, it is the common thread linking Chief Seattle to Theodore Roethke, Narscissa Whitman to Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller to Ivan Doig, Marilynne Robinson to Jack London, Betty MacDonald to Gary Snyder. Tracing the history of Pacific Northwest literary works--from Native American myths to the accounts of explorers and settlers, the effusions of the romantics, the sharply etched stories of the realists, the mystic visions of Northwest poets, and the contemporary explosion of Northwest poetry and prose--O’Connell shows how the most important contribution of Northwest writers to American literature is their articulation of a more spiritual human relationship with landscape. Pacific Northwest writers and storytellers see the Northwest not just as a source of material wealth but as a spiritual homeland, a place to lead a rich and fulfilling life within the whole context of creation. And just as the relationship between people and place serves as the unifying feature of Northwest literature, so also does literature itself possess a perhaps unique ability to transform a landscape into a sacred place.
Northwest Resistance
Katherena Vermette
Author : Katherena Vermette
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781553798934
Northwest Resistance by Katherena Vermette Pdf
Echo Desjardins just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. In Northwest Resistance, Echo travels to 1885, a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help. However, battles between Canadian forces and the Métis and their allies lead to defeat at Batoche. Through it all, Echo gains new perspectives about where she came from and what the future may hold.
The Literary Animal
Jonathan Gottschall,David Sloan Wilson
Author : Jonathan Gottschall,David Sloan Wilson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810122871
The Literary Animal by Jonathan Gottschall,David Sloan Wilson Pdf
The goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically.
The Literary Work of Art
Roman Ingarden
Author : Roman Ingarden
Publisher : Universidad Iberoamericana
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9681903994
The Literary Work of Art by Roman Ingarden Pdf
Manual of Classical Literature. From the German, with Additions by N. W. Fiske. Third Edition
Johann Joachim ESCHENBURG
Author : Johann Joachim ESCHENBURG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027055079
