[PDF] The Western Reader eBook

Author : Jim Kitses
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
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This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.

Author : Jim Kitses
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
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This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.

Author : John Mark Reynolds
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441259902

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Great Books programs have become increasingly popular among Christian colleges, high schools, and even home schoolers. This one-of-a-kind book is designed for those who do not have the opportunity to attend such a program but are still interested in directly engaging with the Western Canon. It contains substantial excerpts from thirty of the most important books in history, with each excerpt followed by an essay placing the work in historical and Christian context. Readers can learn directly from such authors and thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, de Tocqueville, Freud, and Chesterton. Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
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This groundbreaking anthology compiles writing and photography from women who have called the American West home for the past three centuries. These women helped shaped the nation's history by leading protest movements and making their voices heard.

Author : William Kittredge
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Fiction
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A collection of Western stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from more than seventy authors.

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0140230262

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The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape.

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439101701

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An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live” (The New York Times). “What constitutes human excellence?” and “What is the best way to live a life?” These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether one God or many. These forces drew us in and imbued the ordinary moments of life with wonder and gratitude. Dreyfus and Kelly argue in this thought-provoking work that as we began to rely on the power of our own independent will we lost our skill for encountering the sacred. Through their original and transformative discussion of some of the greatest works of Western literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to Melville’s Moby Dick, Dreyfus and Kelly reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with the things that gave our lives purpose, and show how, by reading our culture’s classics anew, we can once again be drawn into intense involvement with the wonder and beauty of the world. Well on its way to becoming a classic itself, this inspirational book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves.