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Author: Jack Hicks Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520222121 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 667
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This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
Author: Jack Hicks Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520222121 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 667
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This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
Author: Ramón A. Gutiérrez Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520920554 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 407
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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars offer a contemporary perspective on such issues as the evolution of a distinctive California culture, the interaction between people and the natural environment, the ways in which California's development affected the United States and the world, and the legacy of cultural and ethnic diversity in the state. California before the Gold Rush, the first California Sesquicentennial volume, combines topics of interest to scholars and general readers alike. The essays investigate traditional historical subjects and also explore such areas as environmental science, women's history, and Indian history. Authored by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, each essay contains excellent summary bibliographies of leading works on pertinent topics. This volume also features an extraordinary full-color photographic essay on the artistic record of the conquest of California by Europeans, as well as over seventy black-and-white photographs, some never before published.
Author: Theodore Henry Hittell Publisher: ISBN: 9781357504298 Category : Languages : en Pages : 108
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Blake Allmendinger Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316299074 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 445
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Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally.
Author: Jessy Quinn Thornton Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230289328 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...yet below the covering of the dense and closely interwoven pine tops that grew upon the side of the mountain, all seemed to be dark; and all was silent, except the loud cry of the drivers cheering the overwrought oxen to their toil. My wagon being in the road, Mr. Newton at length insisted upon my moving forward. Mr. Townsend moved forward with us, and we soon entered a dreary forest of deep and somber shade, that covered the summit of the mountain. This stretched away we knew not whither. A dreary solitude seemed to brood over, a scene which appeared to be so secluded as to be destined to be never again wandered over by the feet of man. All that we knew of the mountain, was vague and uncertain. Applegate had mentioned it by name, indeed, and had spoken of the ascent as being short and easy. But this--like almost every thing he had said of the road--we learned, by sad and painful experience, to be untrue. We only knew that many fierce savages prowled among its rugged recesses, and we only wished that they had prevented Applegate from passing through it. Anxious to get our famishing and exhausted cattle to water and grass, we continued to press forward, until extreme darkness made it impossible to proceed without the utmost danger of dashing the wagons to pieces upon the rocks and trees. Three of my cattle also appeared to be in great danger of becoming entirely useless to me, in consequence of weakness. We chained our oxen to the wheels to prevent them from eating laurel, or being killed by Indians. We made a large fire, at which Mrs. Thornton prepared tea; we having brought a little water with us from the river. This, and a small allowance of crackers, only equal, however, to the amount to which we had confined ourselves for several...
Author: Ali Dehdarirad Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice ISBN: 8893772876 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Offering a transdisciplinary journey across Thomas Pynchon’s California trilogy, “From Faraway California” addresses the representation of (city)space in the Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice through “geourban” lenses. Drawing on specific concepts in urban and regional studies, the book provides a thorough examination of Pynchon’s spatial imaginary, where the reader comes to understand how his fiction tackles the socio-political and cultural consequences of urban restructuring in the contemporary city and the lives of its citizens. Pynchon’s depiction of California is further analyzed from mythical and environmental standpoints to shed light on his planetary vision and (post)postmodernist poetics in the span of nearly half a century. More broadly, the book’s geocritical and urban analyses of Pynchon’s fiction indicate what might take place concerning the future of urbanism, toward “planetary urbanization” and the formation of the “city region.”
Author: Donald E. Smith Publisher: Trieste Publishing ISBN: 9780649040629 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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Author: Jack Hicks
Author: Jack Hicks
Author: Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Author: Theodore H. Hittell
Author: Theodore Henry Hittell
Author: Blake Allmendinger
Author: Jessy Quinn Thornton
Author: Rockwell D. Hunt
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Author: Ali Dehdarirad 
Author: Donald E. Smith