The rural tradition
Author: William John Keith
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780608146270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William John Keith
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780608146270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ideals Publications Inc
Publisher:
Published: 1995-03
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780824940614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of the poetry, photography, artwork, essays, music, and recipes reflecting traditional rural life in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
Author: Bill Laws
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780789200570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William J. Keith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1974-12-15
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 1487586329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's "means of revealing Nature as well as describing her"...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.' Keith argues that non-fiction rural prose should be recognized as a distinct literary tradition that merits serious critical attention. In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers. Eleven of the more important and influential writers from the seventeenth century to modern times come under individual scrutiny: Izaak Walton, Gilbert White, William Cobbett, Mary Russell Mitford, George Borrow, Richard Jefferies, George Sturt/'George Bourne', W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas Williamson, and H.J. Massingham. In examining these writers within the context of the rural tradition, Keith rescues their works from the literary attic where they have too often been relegated as awkward misfits. When studied together, each throws fascinating light on the others and is seen to fit into a loose but nonetheless discernible 'line.'
Author: William John Keith
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780855270834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-07-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521437738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415352246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland. This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with particular emphasis on the social history and 'traditional' aspects. It contains several hundred entries focusing on individual sports and others providing analysis of key concepts, themes and terminologies. The Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports is an invaluable reference that provides students, scholars and sports enthusiasts with a focussed and authoritative source of information on the history and culture of rural sport in Britain.