Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West
Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West

Author: Ramon Adams

Publisher:

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780781805902

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Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited education he squeezes the juice from language, molds it to suit his needs, and is a genius at making a verb out of anything. He 'don't have to fish 'round for no decorated language to make his meanin' clear, ' and has little patience with the man who 'spouts words that run eight to the pound.' Perhaps the strength and originality in his speech are due to the solitude, the nearness of the stars, the bigness of the country, and the far horizons-all of which give him a chance to think clearly and go into the depths of his own mind. Wide spaces 'don't breed chatterboxes.' On his long and lonely rides, he is not forced to listen to the scandal and idle gossip that dwarf a man's mind. Quite frequently he has no one to talk to but a horse..." -from the author's Introduction

Words West
Words West

Author: Ginger Wadsworth

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780618234752

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Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.

A Dictionary of Cowboy and Western Slang
A Dictionary of Cowboy and Western Slang

Author: Ron Gale

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-04-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781482609295

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Have you ever wanted to know how to talk like an old time cowboy? This book has the words and phrases for any western event. Western slang and sayings are excellent for parties, for introductions and for commentators at western events.

The Secret Lives of Words
The Secret Lives of Words

Author: Paul West

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".

The Cowboy Dictionary
The Cowboy Dictionary

Author: Ramon Frederick Adams

Publisher: Perigee Trade

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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"Defines the usage, meaning, and background of words and phrases from the language of the Western frontier." -- Amazon.com viewed December 11, 2020.

West-words
West-words

Author: Moira Jean Day

Publisher: University of Regina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780889772359

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West-words gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the contemporary theatre scene across the prairies.

Western Words
Western Words

Author: Ramon F. Adams

Publisher:

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756765019

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This book, originally published in 1944, has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. The native cowman forged his own language. Like other men of the soil, he created similes & metaphors, salty & unrefined, but sparkling with stimulating vigor. In the early days, many men with college degrees came west, fell in love with the freedom of range life, & remained. Not bound by conventions, they soon drifted into the infectious parlance of the cow country. This volume has been prepared to help preserve this lingo for posterity. The terms have been gathered from every part of the range. Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor & strength -- unique, original, full-flavored. Illus.

Zen Beyond All Words
Zen Beyond All Words

Author: Wolfgang Kopp

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 146290114X

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Zen Beyond All Words contains a selection of talks given by Zen Master Wolfgang Kopp. In the spirit of the ancient Chinese Zen Cha'an masters, Wolfgang Kopp teaches a direct and powerful Zen Buddhism. He conveys neither a theoretical system nor a one-sided dogmatism of sitting. Rather, Master Kopp speaks directly to the reader, free of incumbencies. His sole aim is our liberation from old patterns of behavior and modes of thought, leading ultimately to the enlightenment of the Mind. He uses all means to awaken the reader out of the slumber of habit, because habit, regardless of its form, hinders us from experiencing reality directly. Master Kopp's energy-packed words of shocking openness are filled with such spiritual power that they can strike us like a flash of lightning, shattering the logic of our conceptual thinking. On every page of this Zen. book he shows us the mirror of our true being and in it we recognize our ever-present Buddha-nature.

Worlds Made by Words
Worlds Made by Words

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780674032576

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Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.