Western Words

Author : Ramon Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781805902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West written by Ramon Adams and published by . This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited education he squeezes the juice from language, molds it to suit his needs, and is a genius at making a verb out of anything. He 'don't have to fish 'round for no decorated language to make his meanin' clear, ' and has little patience with the man who 'spouts words that run eight to the pound.' Perhaps the strength and originality in his speech are due to the solitude, the nearness of the stars, the bigness of the country, and the far horizons-all of which give him a chance to think clearly and go into the depths of his own mind. Wide spaces 'don't breed chatterboxes.' On his long and lonely rides, he is not forced to listen to the scandal and idle gossip that dwarf a man's mind. Quite frequently he has no one to talk to but a horse..." -from the author's Introduction

Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618234752
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words West written by Ginger Wadsworth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.

Author : Paul West
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Words written by Paul West and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".

Author : James Joseph Buss
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806150408
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the West with Words written by James Joseph Buss and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts. By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.

Author : Wolfgang Kopp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290114X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Beyond All Words written by Wolfgang Kopp and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Beyond All Words contains a selection of talks given by Zen Master Wolfgang Kopp. In the spirit of the ancient Chinese Zen Cha'an masters, Wolfgang Kopp teaches a direct and powerful Zen Buddhism. He conveys neither a theoretical system nor a one-sided dogmatism of sitting. Rather, Master Kopp speaks directly to the reader, free of incumbencies. His sole aim is our liberation from old patterns of behavior and modes of thought, leading ultimately to the enlightenment of the Mind. He uses all means to awaken the reader out of the slumber of habit, because habit, regardless of its form, hinders us from experiencing reality directly. Master Kopp's energy-packed words of shocking openness are filled with such spiritual power that they can strike us like a flash of lightning, shattering the logic of our conceptual thinking. On every page of this Zen. book he shows us the mirror of our true being and in it we recognize our ever-present Buddha-nature.

Author : Ron Gale
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482609295
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Cowboy and Western Slang written by Ron Gale and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to know how to talk like an old time cowboy? This book has the words and phrases for any western event. Western slang and sayings are excellent for parties, for introductions and for commentators at western events.

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032576
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Made by Words written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

Author : Hank Bordowitz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1932360603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noise of the World written by Hank Bordowitz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise of the World captures the world music scene through the eyes of the musicians who create it, all in their own words. Drawn from original interviews conducted over the last 20 years—with artists who left a massive musical legacy, like Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and artists that continue to make crucial recordings, like Winston "Burning Spear" Rodney—it will feature artists whose music has become part of the "mainstream," like the Gipsy Kings and Gloria Estefan and artists like Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, who managed to cross over and garner that rarest of things, a pop hit, while retaining their roots, talking about making music in their native country and in exile. There is as much dissent between the artistic and holistic outlooks of Nigerian artists like Sunny Ade and Fela Anikulapo Kuti as there is between a religious rock band and a satanic metal band. These open and honest self-portraits will give music fans a greater appreciation of what is behind these sounds and the suffering these artists have endured and triumphs they have enjoyed.

Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203358
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Among Giants written by Bill Roorbach and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who’s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge--rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting--Life Among Giants is an exhilarating adventure. Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012 Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 Columbus Dispatch’s Top Books of 2012

Author : Moira Jean Day
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889772359
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West-words written by Moira Jean Day and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West-words gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the contemporary theatre scene across the prairies.