Tall Tales, Fool Tales and Frontier Humor; Tall Talk; Arkansas Traveler
Title | Tall Tales, Fool Tales and Frontier Humor; Tall Talk; Arkansas Traveler PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert M. Halpert Collection |
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Pages | |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
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Tall Tale America
Title | Tall Tale America PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Blair |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 1987-01-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0226055965 |
The stories of American tall tale heroes- Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
Southern Humor Issue
Title | Southern Humor Issue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | American wit and humor |
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Southern Frontier Humor
Title | Southern Frontier Humor PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Inge |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2010-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0826272207 |
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years—and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales to appear in over forty years. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino bring their knowledge of and fondness for this genre to a collection that reflects the considerable body of scholarship that has been published on its major figures and the place of the movement in American literary history. They breathe new life into the subject, gathering a new selection of texts and adding Twain—the only major American author to contribute to and emerge from the movement—as well as several recently identified humorists. All of the major writers are represented, from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Thomas Bangs Thorpe, as well as a great many lesser-known figures like Hamilton C. Jones, Joseph M. Field, and John S. Robb. The anthology also includes several writers only recently discovered to be a part of the tradition, such as Joseph Gault, Christopher Mason Haile, James Edward Henry, and Marcus Lafayette Byrn, and features authors previously overlooked, such as William Gilmore Simms, Ham Jones, Orlando Benedict Mayer, and Adam Summer. Selections are timely, reflecting recent trends in literary history and criticism sensitive to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity. The editors have also taken pains to seek out first printings to avoid the kinds of textual corruptions that often occur in later versions of these sketches. Southern Frontier Humor offers students and general readers alike a broad perspective and new appreciation of this singular form of writing from the Old South—and provides some chuckles along the way.
Tall Tales of the Southwest
Title | Tall Tales of the Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Franklin J. Meine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Humor |
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The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book
Title | The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book PDF eBook |
Author | William Ferris |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2014-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469620839 |
Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in Southern Cultures for nearly half of that time. To celebrate Southern Cultures' 20th anniversary, we present our inaugural special omnibus ebook, The William R. Ferris Reader. Collected here for the first time are all 20 of Bill Ferris's essays and interviews as they have appeared in our pages between 1995 and 2013, as well as an introduction to the collection by Ferris. From folk humor to moon pies to Faulkner, Welty, Walker, and so much more, we are delighted to share this special collection of a favored friend, mentor, and colleague.
American Tall Tales
Title | American Tall Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2013-08-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307982599 |
The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.