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1 online resource (xxvii, 284 pages) |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Lee, James Ward, 1931-
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Lee, James Ward, 1931- -- Homes and haunts -- Texas
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Lee, James Ward, 1931- fast |
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American literature -- Texas -- History and criticism
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English teachers -- United States -- Biography
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Folklore -- Texas
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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English teachers
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Folklore
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Homes
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Texas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Texas -- In literature
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Texas -- Biography
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Texas
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1417592648 |
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9781417592647 |
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