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Adventures with a Texas humanist / James Ward Lee. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, James Ward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lee, James Ward.
- American literature--Texas--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English teachers--United States--Biography.
- English teachers.
- Lee, James Ward--Homes and haunts--Texas.
- Texas--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Texas.
- Texas--In literature.
- Texas--Biography.
- Folklore--Texas.
- Folklore.
- American literature--History and criticism--Texas--Biography.
- English teachers--United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 284 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author discusses the writers and trends in Texas literature beginning with early twentieth-century writer J. Frank Dobie and Larry McMurtry during the 1960s and places writers, politicians, and cultural leaders in the context of each age.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Judy Alter
- Texas Literature
- The Age of Dobie
- The Age of McMurtry
- Dobie and Porter: A Marriage Made in Hell
- The Old South in Texas Literature
- The Novels of Shelby Hearon
- The Poetry of Betsy Colquitt
- Boom Town: A Romance of the Oil Patch
- The Function of Criticism and the Criticism of Regional Literature
- Folklore and Texas Culture
- The Uses of Folklore
- Texas: Land of Myth and Legends
- Small-Town Texas
- Folkways of the Arklatex
- Texas Sidekicks
- Some Part of Me
- A Start in Life
- Boot Camp Days
- The Rain in Korea is Awful Cold and Wet
- Hydrogen Bomb Days
- My Forty Years in a Quandary and How They Grew.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-9264-8
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