Authors:Roger Gibbins, Loleen Berdahl,
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: western, futures, visions
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1551114887
ISBN-13: 9781551114880
Western Visions, Western Futures explores the interplay between western alienation and western aspirations. Western Visions argues that western Canada is a region of great aspiration and great promise. However, it is this aspiration that gives rise to continued feelings of alienation. It is because of regional optimism that western Canadians often feel alienated from the rest of Canada, or more specifically from the federal government: western Canadians are concerned that their aspirations are not shared by the rest of Canada, and worse, that conflicting "national" goals will work t
Author: C. Jan Swearinge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: western, lies, literacy, rhetoric, irony
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1991-09-05
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195063627
ISBN-13: 9780195063622
This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory. Swearingen reverses the traditional focus on rhetoric as an oral agonistic genre and examines it instead as a paradigm for literate discourse. She proposes that rhetoric and literacy have in the West disseminated the interrelated notions that through learning rhetoric individuals
Author: R. W. Stone
Publisher: Leisure Books
Keywords: western, leisure, story, trail, hand
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2008-02-26
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0843960353
ISBN-13: 9780843960358
Owen Burke just wanted a little extra money. He had no idea he’d also be getting a heap of trouble when he signed on to guide a horse drive from Mexico to California. First he was bushwhacked by a bunch of banditos who stole his mount. Worse, they then drove off the rest of the herd, and because they had Owen’s horse, the ramrod thinks Owen purposely led his group into a trap. Alone and on foot, he has no choice but to go after the thieves and prove his innocence--if the ramrod and his gang don’t kill him first.
Author: Red Shuttleworth
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: western, series, literature, poems, settings
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0874173485
ISBN-13: 9780874173482
Red Shuttleworth is a poet of the modern West, and his work explores the full possibilities of history and life in this vast, complex region, ranging from musings on the careers of outlaws like Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin to wry comments on marriage, family life, and the inescapable trappings of middle-class life. His voice is unique--virile, honest, sometimes harsh, and sometimes unabashedly romantic--and his eye for the perfect detail is uncannily clear. Few poets have examined so poignantly the strange concatenations of history and contemporary experience that typify the mode
Author: John Jakes
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: western, fiction, anthology, stories, century
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-06-23
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0312869851
ISBN-13: 9780312869854
John Jakes is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles. A Century of Great Western Stories is a retrospective of Western writing over the past hundred years, showing the evolution of the genre, as well as a glimpse into what the future might hold for Western fiction.
Author: Lawrence, J. Burpee
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: western, north, america, exploration, story, sea, search
Number of Pages: 812
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1596052066
ISBN-13: 9781596052062
Dreamers they were, sailing out into the west in quest of they knew not what-puppets in the game of destiny. What splendid courage it must have needed to sail in their little cockle-shells of vessels over that untravelled sea, with its dangers all the more terrifying because unknown... -Lawrence J. Burpee, in the Introduction From the discovery of Hudson Bay and the search for the mythical Northwest Passage to the first overland journey to the Pacific, Canadian historian Lawrence Burpee makes the story of the exploration of northwestern North America come alive in this classic book, first
Author: Antoine Faivre
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: western, esoteric, traditions, series, suny, esotericism, access
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1994-12-05
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0791421783
ISBN-13: 9780791421789
