Author: Michael Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pens
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen
Author: Michael Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pens
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pens
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Writing the Western Landscape
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0807085278
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction and Illustrations by Ann H. Zwinger
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0807085278
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction and Illustrations by Ann H. Zwinger
Write a Western in 30 Days
Author: Nik Morton
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178099592X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Nik Morton has been writing for over forty years, honing his craft. He writes genre fiction, whether that s science fiction, horror, crime, thriller, romance or westerns. To date he has 15 books under several pseudonyms. His westerns are usually written under the name Ross Morton. Within these pages you can discover how to write a western from the initial ideas, through the preparation and research, to those all-important character studies and plots. And you can do it in 30 days! ,
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178099592X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Nik Morton has been writing for over forty years, honing his craft. He writes genre fiction, whether that s science fiction, horror, crime, thriller, romance or westerns. To date he has 15 books under several pseudonyms. His westerns are usually written under the name Ross Morton. Within these pages you can discover how to write a western from the initial ideas, through the preparation and research, to those all-important character studies and plots. And you can do it in 30 days! ,
Twentieth-century Western Writers
Author: Geoff Sadler
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about nearly five hundred twentieth-century writers of Western fiction, each featuring a biography, a bibliography, a signed critical essay, and, in some cases, comments from the author. Includes a title index.
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about nearly five hundred twentieth-century writers of Western fiction, each featuring a biography, a bibliography, a signed critical essay, and, in some cases, comments from the author. Includes a title index.
Writing Mothers and Daughters
Author: Adalgisa Giorgio
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571813411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors identify characteristics arising from specific national literary traditions and from internal cultural diversities. The text suggests avenues for future investigation both within and across national boundaries. The featured writers include Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolin, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, and Martin Gaite. The six contributing authors are scholars from New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy and Wales. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571813411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors identify characteristics arising from specific national literary traditions and from internal cultural diversities. The text suggests avenues for future investigation both within and across national boundaries. The featured writers include Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolin, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, and Martin Gaite. The six contributing authors are scholars from New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy and Wales. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A History of Reading and Writing
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0230001629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wide-ranging overview of the history of reading and writing in western societies from ancient times to the digital age. Author from University of NSW, Australia.
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0230001629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wide-ranging overview of the history of reading and writing in western societies from ancient times to the digital age. Author from University of NSW, Australia.
The Virginian
Author: Owen Wister
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775455211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775455211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.
Writing National Histories
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134712154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism * right-wing history writing in France between the wars * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134712154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism * right-wing history writing in France between the wars * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.
Writing the Dead
Author: Armando Petrucci
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728591
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing—on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters—to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728591
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing—on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters—to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In the Distance
Author: Hernan Diaz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593850564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593850564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.