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Welcome to Hard Times

Author	: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-11-17
ISBN	: 0307762971
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Hard Times written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Praise for Welcome to Hard Times “A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.”—The Washington Post “We are caught up with these people as real human beings.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Dramatic and exciting.”—The New York Times “Terse and powerful.”—Newsweek “A taut, bloodthirsty read.”—The Times Literary Supplement “A superb piece of fiction.”—The New Republic

Understanding E.L. Doctorow

Author	: Douglas Fowler
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN	: 9780872498198
Pages	: 190 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Understanding E.L. Doctorow written by Douglas Fowler and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

LIFE

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1967-05-26
ISBN	:
Pages	: 134 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-05-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Chasing the Sun

Author	: Edward Joseph Beverly
Publisher	: Sunstone Press
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN	: 0865346038
Pages	: 497 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Sun written by Edward Joseph Beverly and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chasing the Sun" is a guide to Western fiction with more than 1,350 entries, including 59 reviews of the author's personal favorites, organized around theme.

Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow

Author	: María Ferrández San Miguel
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-01-24
ISBN	: 100003822X
Pages	: 210 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow written by María Ferrández San Miguel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project approaches four of E. L. Doctorow’s novels—Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)—from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow’s literary project is eminently ethical and has an underlying social and political scope. This crops up through the novels’ overriding concern with injustice and their engagement with the representation of human suffering in a variety of forms. The book puts forward the claim that E.L. Doctorow’s literary project—through its representation of psychological trauma and its attitude towards gender—may be understood as a call to action against both each individual’s indifference and the wider social and political structures and ideologies that justify and/or facilitate the injustices and oppression to which those who are situated at the margins of contemporary US society are subjected.

Exploring Postmodernism

Author	: Matei Calinescu
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date	: 1988-01-01
ISBN	: 902727858X
Pages	: 262 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Postmodernism written by Matei Calinescu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a household word in the language of advertising and politics. Before letting it fade to a derelict cliché, an attempt is made in this volume of essays to use its potential as a cultural concept for the analysis and understanding of contemporary literature and thought.

International Postmodernism

Author	: Hans Bertens
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date	: 1997-02-20
ISBN	: 9027299714
Pages	: 581 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book International Postmodernism written by Hans Bertens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-02-20 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

Intuition of an Infinite Obligation

Author	: Catharine Walker Bergström
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN	: 9783631587492
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Intuition of an Infinite Obligation written by Catharine Walker Bergström and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a Ph.D. thesis (Narrative ethics and intuition of the infinite) -- University of Gothenburg, 2008.

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel

Author	: D. Simmons
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2008-05-26
ISBN	: 0230612520
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Hero in the American Novel written by D. Simmons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.

The New Western History

Author	: Forrest Glen Robinson
Publisher	: University of Arizona Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN	: 9780816519163
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The New Western History written by Forrest Glen Robinson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven scholars examine the work of the "new western" historians, who retell the story of the American West from the point of view of the oppressed and colonized, and discuss ways to expand the horizons of this new approach to include fiction, literature by women, racial categories, writers who presaged the movement, popular culture, and natural history.

American Literature on Stage and Screen

Author	: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2014-01-10
ISBN	: 0786492791
Pages	: 308 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book American Literature on Stage and Screen written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children’s books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.

LIFE

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Release Date	: 1967-05-26
ISBN	:
Pages	: 134 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-05-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Henry Fonda

Author	: Kevin Sweeney
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN	: 9780313265716
Pages	: 302 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Henry Fonda written by Kevin Sweeney and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Henry Fonda are detailed in this bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives. The reference provides a complete and detailed guide to Fonda's films, television, theater, radio, recordings, awards, video releases, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Library of Congress Catalog: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips

Author	: Library of Congress
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1968
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Playing Cowboys

Author	: Robert Murray Davis
Publisher	: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN	: 9780806126272
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Playing Cowboys written by Robert Murray Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Playing Cowboys, Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero-a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian-as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers. Innovative artists have used the Western to discuss issues of ethics and aesthetics, but its greatest impact may have been on popular cultural values. Davis shows that the Western is not primarily about escape or violence, but, at its best, is about development. The would-be hero adopts the existing role only to find it inadequate, and, forced to "reimagine" himself, he defines the Western hero anew. At the core of this process is strength-not power over others, but courage to go beyond the established boundaries. Although women do appear in the Western (often as proponents of "civilization"), it is fundamentally a man's world, offering an important view of male identity. Focusing on The Virginian, chapter 1 explores the origin of the Western hero and the source of the genre's major plots and issues. Chapter 2 evaluates history, myth, and the relative reality of the two in the works of Oakley Hall. Citing the novels of Richard Brautigan, E.L. Doctorow, John Hawkes, and Michael Ondaatje, chapter 3 compares the Western and the gothic novel, focusing on the concept of space. These works portray the West as a wasteland devoid of any vitality, but chapter 4 takes up science fiction Westerns (including works by John Jakes, John Boyd, and Robert Sheckley) that use the Western frontier to ironic and liberating effect. Chapter 5, on the motion picture Blazing Saddles and the postmodern Western novels of Ishmael Reed and Alvin Greenberg, examines the role playing by which identity is created. And in his Preface, Introduction, and Epilogue, Davis frames these discussions with personal observations on the West and its relation to the American masculine mystique. For those interested in Western movies or novels, popular culture, gender studies, or literary criticism, Playing Cowboys is a unique and indispensable guide to the territory from here to the sunset.

Warren Oates

Author	: Susan A. Compo
Publisher	: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date	: 2009-04-17
ISBN	: 081313918X
Pages	: 512 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Warren Oates written by Susan A. Compo and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928--1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s. With his rugged looks and measured demeanor, Oates crafted complex characters who were at once brazen and thoughtful, wild and subdued. Friends remember the hard-living, hard-drinking actor as kind and caring, but also sometimes as mean as a blue-eyed devil. Married four times, partial to road trips in his RV affectionately known as the "Roach Coach," and famous for performances for directors ranging from Sam Peckinpah to Steven Spielberg, Warren Oates remained a Hollywood outsider perfectly suited to the 1960s and 1970s counterculture. Born in the small town of Depoy in rural western Kentucky and reared in Louisville, Oates began his career in the late 1950s with bit parts in television westerns. Though hardly lucrative work, it was during this time Oates met renegade director Sam Peckinpah, establishing the creative relationship and destructive friendship that produced some of Oates's most unforgettable roles in Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), and The Wild Bunch (1969), as well as a leading part in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). Though Oates maintained a close association with Peckinpah, he had a penchant for working with a variety of visionary directors who understood his approach and were eager to enlist the subtle talents of the consummate character actor. With supporting roles in In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Hired Hand (1971), Badlands (1973), 1941 (1979), and Stripes (1981), Oates delivered solid performances for filmmakers as diverse and talented as Norman Jewison, Peter Fonda, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg, and Ivan Reitman. Oates's offscreen personality was just as complex as his on-screen persona. Notorious for being a nightlife reveler, he was as sensitive and introspective as he was outgoing and prone to periods of exuberant, and at times illegal, excess. Though he never became a marquee name, Warren Oates continues to influence actors like Billy Bob Thornton and Benicio Del Toro, as well as directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater, all of whom have cited Oates as a major inspiration. In Warren Oates: A Wild Life, author Susan Compo skillfully captures the story of Oates's eventful life, indulgent lifestyle, and influential career.

Playing to the Camera

Author	: Bert Cardullo
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 1998-01-01
ISBN	: 9780300070514
Pages	: 392 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Playing to the Camera written by Bert Cardullo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers articles and interviews with movie actors from the silents to the present that discuss the art of film acting, including the difference between stage and screen, and British, Soviet, and Western European as well as American techniques