Literary Austin - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0875653472 ISBN 13 : 9780875653471

Editeur : Texas Christian University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Don Graham brings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected, on the advice of Mirabeau B. Lamar, as the site for a new capital of the then - Republic of Texas. Essays, fiction, and poetry reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades and are organized in a roughly chronological fashion to reveal the themes, places, and personalities that have defined the life of the city. Austin was always about three things: natural beauty, government, and education; thus, many of the pieces in this volume dwell upon one and sometimes all of these themes. Besides O. Henry, the other most important literary figures in the city's history were J. Frank Dobie, Roy Bedichek, and Walter P. Webb: folklorist, naturalist, historian. During their heyday, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, they were the face of literary culture in the city.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

DON GRAHAM is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006, he received the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Giant Country: Essays on Texas (1998); and Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003). In 2003 Graham edited Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas Christian University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0875653472
• ISBN 13: 9780875653471
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Graham Don
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