Author: C. H. Crane
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490721363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
When Tim, cousin Natalie and the Weaver twins are invited to Stretchs grandparents, a fun day of swimming and eating birthday cake turns into an evening of thunderstorms and darkness. Once the power goes out, there really is not much to do. Until the kids decide to tell ghost stories! Sitting in a circle, with the glow of their flashlights outlining the shadows of their faces, theyre not too impressed with each others stories. That is when Stretchs grandfather joins the group and describes how a real ghost story goes. Grandpa shares a tale of a mystery that happened many, many years ago in their own hollow. A tale of some evil entity buried in the old cemetery. Is this story just a tall tale? Or is it perhaps something more. . . something that may have really happened all those years ago? Join the gang in this new adventure as they investigate the Ghosts of Meeker Hollow and find out firsthand what happens when daylight fades into darkness.
The Ghosts of Meeker Hollow
Author: C. H. Crane
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490721363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
When Tim, cousin Natalie and the Weaver twins are invited to Stretchs grandparents, a fun day of swimming and eating birthday cake turns into an evening of thunderstorms and darkness. Once the power goes out, there really is not much to do. Until the kids decide to tell ghost stories! Sitting in a circle, with the glow of their flashlights outlining the shadows of their faces, theyre not too impressed with each others stories. That is when Stretchs grandfather joins the group and describes how a real ghost story goes. Grandpa shares a tale of a mystery that happened many, many years ago in their own hollow. A tale of some evil entity buried in the old cemetery. Is this story just a tall tale? Or is it perhaps something more. . . something that may have really happened all those years ago? Join the gang in this new adventure as they investigate the Ghosts of Meeker Hollow and find out firsthand what happens when daylight fades into darkness.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490721363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
When Tim, cousin Natalie and the Weaver twins are invited to Stretchs grandparents, a fun day of swimming and eating birthday cake turns into an evening of thunderstorms and darkness. Once the power goes out, there really is not much to do. Until the kids decide to tell ghost stories! Sitting in a circle, with the glow of their flashlights outlining the shadows of their faces, theyre not too impressed with each others stories. That is when Stretchs grandfather joins the group and describes how a real ghost story goes. Grandpa shares a tale of a mystery that happened many, many years ago in their own hollow. A tale of some evil entity buried in the old cemetery. Is this story just a tall tale? Or is it perhaps something more. . . something that may have really happened all those years ago? Join the gang in this new adventure as they investigate the Ghosts of Meeker Hollow and find out firsthand what happens when daylight fades into darkness.
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
Author: Julie Carr
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism’s tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven’t traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem’s journey with that of America’s white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists’ profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism’s tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven’t traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem’s journey with that of America’s white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists’ profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society.
In Happy Hollow
Author: Charles Heber Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends
Author: Frank de Caro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
For folklorists, students, as well as general readers, this is the most comprehensive survey of American folktales and legends currently available. It offers an amazing variety of American legend and lore - everything from Appalachian Jack tales, African American folklore, riddles, trickster tales, tall tales, tales of the supernatural, legends of crime and criminals, tales of women, and even urban legends.The anthology is divided into three main sections - Native American and Hawaiian Narratives, Folktales, and Legends - and within each section the individual stories explore the myriad narrative traditions and genres from various geographic regions of the United States. Each section and tale genre is introduced and placed in its narrative context by noted folklorist Frank de Caro. Tale type and motif indexes complete the work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
For folklorists, students, as well as general readers, this is the most comprehensive survey of American folktales and legends currently available. It offers an amazing variety of American legend and lore - everything from Appalachian Jack tales, African American folklore, riddles, trickster tales, tall tales, tales of the supernatural, legends of crime and criminals, tales of women, and even urban legends.The anthology is divided into three main sections - Native American and Hawaiian Narratives, Folktales, and Legends - and within each section the individual stories explore the myriad narrative traditions and genres from various geographic regions of the United States. Each section and tale genre is introduced and placed in its narrative context by noted folklorist Frank de Caro. Tale type and motif indexes complete the work.
Hollow Palaces
Author: Kevin Gardner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800856741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
As a genre of poetry, the country house poem was born in the seventeenth century. As English country house society itself grew in prominence, the poem of commemoration diminished in popularity; not until the Edwardian era, when the country house as an institution began to wane, was there a renewed interest in country house poetry. As the power and influence of landed society dwindled, the country house began to haunt the English literary imagination, and our poets found in its dereliction a frequent subject and theme. This is the first book to gather modern and contemporary country house poems into one collection. Poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer a wide variety of perspectives: stately exteriors and interiors, crumbling ruins, gardens both wild and cultivated, and the voices of noble owners, servants, and curious visitors. The dominant note sounded is perhaps unsurprisingly elegiac, yet comic, satiric, and gothic tones appear frequently as well. The common thread is that, in response to the rapid sociological changes of the twentieth century, poets reflect on the country house as an architecturally, politically, socially, and economically potent symbol and institution, both in its heyday and in its eclipse.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800856741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
As a genre of poetry, the country house poem was born in the seventeenth century. As English country house society itself grew in prominence, the poem of commemoration diminished in popularity; not until the Edwardian era, when the country house as an institution began to wane, was there a renewed interest in country house poetry. As the power and influence of landed society dwindled, the country house began to haunt the English literary imagination, and our poets found in its dereliction a frequent subject and theme. This is the first book to gather modern and contemporary country house poems into one collection. Poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer a wide variety of perspectives: stately exteriors and interiors, crumbling ruins, gardens both wild and cultivated, and the voices of noble owners, servants, and curious visitors. The dominant note sounded is perhaps unsurprisingly elegiac, yet comic, satiric, and gothic tones appear frequently as well. The common thread is that, in response to the rapid sociological changes of the twentieth century, poets reflect on the country house as an architecturally, politically, socially, and economically potent symbol and institution, both in its heyday and in its eclipse.
Space, the City and Social Theory
Author: Fran Tonkiss
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745628264
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Space, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory and analysis. It explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the context of critical urban themes: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; gender and sexuality; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice in the city. The text adopts an international and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a range of debates on cities and urban life. It brings together classic perspectives in urban sociology and social theory with the analysis of contemporary urban problems and issues. Rather than viewing the urban simply as a backdrop for more general social processes, the discussion looks at how social and spatial relations shape different versions of the city: as a place of social interaction and of solitude; as a site of difference and segregation; as a space of politics and power; as a landscape of economic and cultural distinction; as a realm of everyday experience and freedom. Similarly, it examines how core social categories - such as class, culture, gender, sexuality and community - are shaped and reproduced in urban contexts. Linking debates in urban studies to wider concerns within social theory and analysis, this accessible text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban sociology, social and cultural geography, urban and cultural studies.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745628264
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Space, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory and analysis. It explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the context of critical urban themes: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; gender and sexuality; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice in the city. The text adopts an international and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a range of debates on cities and urban life. It brings together classic perspectives in urban sociology and social theory with the analysis of contemporary urban problems and issues. Rather than viewing the urban simply as a backdrop for more general social processes, the discussion looks at how social and spatial relations shape different versions of the city: as a place of social interaction and of solitude; as a site of difference and segregation; as a space of politics and power; as a landscape of economic and cultural distinction; as a realm of everyday experience and freedom. Similarly, it examines how core social categories - such as class, culture, gender, sexuality and community - are shaped and reproduced in urban contexts. Linking debates in urban studies to wider concerns within social theory and analysis, this accessible text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban sociology, social and cultural geography, urban and cultural studies.
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Author: James Hearst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Anthology of Magazine Verse
Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."
Anthology of Magazine Verse for ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description