The ornamental hermit :: people and places of the new West /
In eighteenth-century England, some wealthy people built ruins on their estates, hired hermits to inhabit them, and took guests to view the picturesque results. While no one hires ornamental hermits anymore, society as a whole supports people like Thoreau or Edward Abbey who step aside to comment on...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In eighteenth-century England, some wealthy people built ruins on their estates, hired hermits to inhabit them, and took guests to view the picturesque results. While no one hires ornamental hermits anymore, society as a whole supports people like Thoreau or Edward Abbey who step aside to comment on ordinary life as critics or would-be prophets yet who still get to head into town for a slice of Mrs. Emerson's pie or a shot or three at a Moab saloon--or, as in the case of Bob Davis, drive over the mountain for a Jemez Grande Burger and an internet link. Davis had the chance to look back at America from Communist Hungary, and what he saw changed his view of himself and his country. He discovered that he agreed less with Thoreau and Abbey, and even less with European critics, and more with Chuck Berry--glad, mostly, to be living in the USA as he crossed and recrossed it, heading west from his boyhood home in Missouri to California and many points between. In his essays, he celebrates the achievements of the Navajo Nation's radio station; of the young mayor of Blackwater, Missouri, who helped to revive the town; and of Moab, Utah, which survived boom and bust and even Abbey to reinvent itself. Some attempts to create or re-create he views more wryly: the Texas Panhandle's two vertical monuments; Forest Lawn and the Gene Autry Museum, trying to deny death and reality; the Grapes of Wrath Festival in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. But even events and artifacts verging on the ludicrous can be appreciated for the energy put into them. And around and between all of them is the American West, often apparently dead and empty yet still able to evoke complex emotions and to jar the traveler out of self-absorption, self-pity, self-regard. Fans and writers of Western literature will enjoy the musings of this former president of the Western Literature Association. Anyone who enjoys language will delight in Robert Murray Davis's use of it. |
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| spelling | Davis, Robert Murray. The ornamental hermit : people and places of the new West / Robert Murray Davis. Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, ©2004. 1 online resource (x, 197 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The shortest way home -- You coulda been a contender -- Fathers and sons -- Back roads -- Tulsa time -- The world of Steinbeck's Joads -- Steinbeck at the ends of the trail -- Kicking 66 -- Flying in the heartland -- Running on empty -- Panhandling -- Famous for fifteen minutes -- Breakfast : the real American cuisine -- Consult your local listing -- Blackwater comes back -- Moab, Utah : is there life after Abbey? -- Tight fit in the Jemez Valley -- Slovakia and Oklahoma -- Oklahoma border line -- Who mourns the gepids? -- Not in Kansas -- The ornamental hermit -- Death in the west : a multi-cultural adventure -- Gene Autry, Oklahoma : different slants -- The myth of a west. Print version record. In eighteenth-century England, some wealthy people built ruins on their estates, hired hermits to inhabit them, and took guests to view the picturesque results. While no one hires ornamental hermits anymore, society as a whole supports people like Thoreau or Edward Abbey who step aside to comment on ordinary life as critics or would-be prophets yet who still get to head into town for a slice of Mrs. Emerson's pie or a shot or three at a Moab saloon--or, as in the case of Bob Davis, drive over the mountain for a Jemez Grande Burger and an internet link. Davis had the chance to look back at America from Communist Hungary, and what he saw changed his view of himself and his country. He discovered that he agreed less with Thoreau and Abbey, and even less with European critics, and more with Chuck Berry--glad, mostly, to be living in the USA as he crossed and recrossed it, heading west from his boyhood home in Missouri to California and many points between. In his essays, he celebrates the achievements of the Navajo Nation's radio station; of the young mayor of Blackwater, Missouri, who helped to revive the town; and of Moab, Utah, which survived boom and bust and even Abbey to reinvent itself. Some attempts to create or re-create he views more wryly: the Texas Panhandle's two vertical monuments; Forest Lawn and the Gene Autry Museum, trying to deny death and reality; the Grapes of Wrath Festival in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. But even events and artifacts verging on the ludicrous can be appreciated for the energy put into them. And around and between all of them is the American West, often apparently dead and empty yet still able to evoke complex emotions and to jar the traveler out of self-absorption, self-pity, self-regard. Fans and writers of Western literature will enjoy the musings of this former president of the Western Literature Association. Anyone who enjoys language will delight in Robert Murray Davis's use of it. English. Davis, Robert Murray fast West (U.S.) Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142 West (U.S.) Social life and customs. West (U.S.) Biography. États-Unis (Ouest) Descriptions et voyages. TRAVEL General. bisacsh Manners and customs fast Travel fast West United States fast United States Local History. hilcc Regions & Countries - Americas. hilcc History & Archaeology. hilcc Biographies fast Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 Biographies. rvmgf has work: The ornamental hermit (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCYrpBfHxQ4HxqVkvMkBycX https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Davis, Robert Murray. Ornamental hermit. Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, ©2004 0896725235 (DLC) 2003024632 (OCoLC)53469434 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=148950 Volltext |
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| title_full | The ornamental hermit : people and places of the new West / Robert Murray Davis. |
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