Author: Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Melissa Ridley Elmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000372103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives, Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest to specialists and a general audience, alike.

Author: María DeGuzmán
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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In this first book-length monograph on the Mexican American novelist, essayist, and playwright John Rechy, best known for his debut novel City of Night, María DeGuzmán offers a conceptually clear yet aesthetically, philosophically, and socio-politically fine-grained analysis of the spectrum of his writing. Recipient of PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, ONE Magazine's National Gay and Lesbian Cultural Hero Award, the William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Luis Leal Award for Excellence in Chicano/Latino Literature, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement, Rechy is the author of fifteen novels, at least three plays, and several volumes of nonfiction. He has written for the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. In Understanding John Rechy, María DeGuzmán offers a brief biographical overview and then traces the development of Rechy's craft through his major works by calling attention to central issues, recurring situations and characters, styles, and special techniques. She examines the complexities of his representation of identity, the subjectivity in his male homosexual odyssey and identity quest novels, and his experimentation with genre. She offers a concise yet intricate analysis of the major organizing paradigms and themes, genres, modes, styles, and handling of the gay Chicano's oeuvre. The book's guiding analysis pays particular attention to the ways in which Rechy's works function as cultural critique challenging mainstream values in a deep-structure manner.

Author: Michael Streissguth
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062038206
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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A “compulsively readable” history of how Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson redefined country music (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Outlaw delves into the country music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, when three rebels—Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famers resisted the music business’s unwritten rules and emerged as leaders of the outlaw movement that ultimately changed the recording industry. This account offers a broad portrait of the outlaw movement in Nashville that includes a diverse secondary cast of characters, such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, and Billy Joe Shaver, among others. With archival photographs throughout, Outlaw is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way. “[An] engaging cultural history . . . a fascinating chronicle.” —The Washington Post “Riveting.” —The Wall Street Journal

Author: Patricia Lockwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985118228
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Titles include: "When We Move Away from Here, You'll See a Clean Square of Paper Where His Picture Hung," "The Cartoon's Mother Builds a House in Hammerspace," "The Front Half and the Back Half of a Horse in Conversation," "Children with Lamps Pouring Out of Their Foreheads," and "Killed with an Apple Corer, She Asks What Does That Make Me."

Author: Ted Morgan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342603
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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“Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style.”—Vogue With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

Author: Laurie Kingery
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488035970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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Enjoy two stories of strength and hope in days gone by from Love Inspired Historical The Outlaw’s Lady by Laurie Kingery When rebellious photographer Tess Hennessy is abducted to chronicle the Delgado gang’s exploits, she discovers there’s more to her kidnapper, gang member Sandoval Parrish, than she expected. Sandoval has one goal: retribution for the sister Delgado ruined. But what can Sandoval do when his plan for revenge puts Tess in danger? Now Sandoval will need his renewed faith to resolve the past…and claim his future. Love Thine Enemy by Louise M. Gouge The tropics of colonial Florida are far removed from America’s Revolution. Still, Rachel Folger’s loyalties remain with Boston’s patriots, while handsome plantation owner Frederick Moberly’s are to the Crown. For the sake of harmony he keeps his sympathies hidden, until a betrayal of Rachel’s trust divides the pair. Now Frederick must harness his faith and courage to claim the woman he loves before war tears them apart.

Author: Miriam Fuchs
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299190644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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German Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested there and murdered by the Nazis. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende fled her country after her uncle Salvador Allende was assassinated, and she later lost her daughter to disease."

Author: Lauri Robinson
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460381157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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More precious than gold… Cole "Lucky" DuMont is off to forge his future in the Alaskan hills. Standing in his way? A dark-haired beauty in need of rescue. Maddie Stockwell's life has always been ruled by men. And now, to ensure her freedom, she strikes a deal with her gorgeous savior: she'll help Lucky in his quest, and find her own fortune along the way! Except when Maddie has to pose as Lucky's wife, she feels a thrill she could never have anticipated. And suddenly there's something even more tempting than gold on her mind…

Author: Frank Sidgwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752424338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Reproduction of the original: Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws by Frank Sidgwick