Yesterday S Faces Glory Figures

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0879722185

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Yesterday's Faces by Robert Sampson Pdf

The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : LCCN:82073597

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Yesterday's Faces: Glory figures by Robert Sampson Pdf

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015001716102

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Yesterday's Faces: Glory figures by Robert Sampson Pdf

The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source."

Author : Jay Watson,James G. Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496810007

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Faulkner and History by Jay Watson,James G. Thomas Pdf

William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner's work. Contributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of anti-slavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner's work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner's fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian's artistic vision.

Author : William F. Deeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780941028110

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The Mystery Fancier by William F. Deeck Pdf

A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.

Author : Steven Philip Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476615219

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The Clive Cussler Adventures by Steven Philip Jones Pdf

The author of more than 50 books—125 million copies in print—Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the sea-loving protagonist of 22 of Cussler’s novels, remains among the most popular and influential adventure series heroes of the past half-century. This first critical review of Cussler’s work features an overview of Pitt and the supporting characters and other heroes, an examination of Cussler’s themes and influences, a review of his most important adventures, such as Raise the Titanic! and Iceberg, and a look at adaptations of his work in other media. Cussler joins the pantheon of such as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming, and this overdue volume demonstrates that beneath Cussler’s immense popularity lies a literary depth that well merits scholarly attention.

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015026975402

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Yesterday's Faces: Violent lives by Robert Sampson Pdf

Adventure, suspense, above all violence--these filled the lives of the characters brightening the pulp magazines. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, these magazines of popular fiction offered hard-paced entertainment and high wonder. In "Violent Lives" Robert Sampson calls up a vivid selection of adventurers, spies, and warriors.

Author : Ray B. Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0879725605

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The Many Tongues of Literacy by Ray B. Browne Pdf

Statistics indicate that more than half the population of America is illiterate or subliterate in the conventional sense, but very literate in other media such as television, sports, and leisure time activities. But statistics can lie or tell only half a fact. Since the languages of literacy are constantly expanding and developing, it is time that American educators, and the public in general, reexamine their definitions of literacy and the media in which we need to be literate. Therefore, educators must redefine literacy if they are to be realistic about its sources, uses, and values. The need is vital to a developing world.

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892651

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Undead in the West II by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror film. In this new volume, Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming, Miller and Van Riper expand their examination of undead Westerns to include not only film, but literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture (fan fiction, blogging, fan editing, and zombie walks). These essays run the gamut from comics and graphic novels such as American Vampire, Preacher, and Priest, and games like Darkwatch and Red Dead Redemption, to novels and short stories by celebrated writers including Robert E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, and Stephen King. Featuring a foreword by renowned science fiction author William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run) and an afterword by acclaimed game designer Paul O’Connor (Darkwatch), this collection will appeal to scholars of literature, gaming, and popular culture, as well as to fans of this unique hybrid.

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer,Christoph Ehland
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401209649

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Perspectives on Mobility by Ingo Berensmeyer,Christoph Ehland Pdf

Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the story of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : 0879722185

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Yesterday's Faces by Robert Sampson Pdf

Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047055796

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Popular Fiction by Gary Hoppenstand Pdf

This unique anthology offers the best of popular fiction - 45 short stories and one short novel - that highlight the major genres of popular writing including: horror, fiction, romance, science fiction, detective stories and adventure. Supporting this definitive collection of stories are ten non fiction essays written by well-known authors discussing some of the key elements for writing in each genre.

Author : Robert Sampson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012431758

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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3 by Robert Sampson Pdf

More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.

Author : Harry L. (Editor) Rinker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Americana
ISBN : 0870696157

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Americana & Collectibles by Harry L. (Editor) Rinker Pdf

Author : Edwin Warman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Americana
ISBN : 0870695576

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Warman's Americana and Collectibles by Edwin Warman Pdf