Neil Schmitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Schmitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITZ N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
White Robe's Dilemma
This volume presents a postmodernist reading of a series of texts by and about American Indians. “White Robe's dilemma,” which provides the title of this work, refers to a legendary war leader of the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Rather than negotiate with the French, White Robe broke off diplomatic relations and engaged in a futile war that led ultimately to his death. He became, as Neil Schmitz expresses it, “beyond European words.” Nonetheless, hi…
Voice of Deliverance
Doing the Fathers
Captive Utterance
NEIL SCHMITZ Captive Utterance: Black Hawk and Indian Irony This is the text, Black Hawk: An Autobiography (1833), edited by Donald Jackson, an Illini Book from the University of Illinois Press, now entering the canon in American literature, coming in after The Narrative of the Life ofFrederick Doughss (1845), taking its place in the category of representative nineteenth-century American autobiography . John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932), on…
Classics of Civil War Fiction
The American Civil War is widely recognized as the single most defining event in U.S. history, a time of tragic upheaval that greatly influenced the character of the nation and helped to chart its course for generations afterward. Much of the fiction focusing on the war not only has literary merit but also offers important views into the cultural, political, and socioeconomic conditions and nuances of the time. This collection of essays, written …
"Must Horses Drink. Or "Any Language Is Funny If You Don't Understand It
Of Huck and Alice
Tall Tale, Tall Talk
W 7HAT IS A TALL TALE? And what is tall talk? A tall tale is a folk tale seized by the activity of tall talk and construed as a lie. Anyone who memorizes Vladimir Propp's thirty-one episodes can tell a folk tale, recite the legend of a hunt, but only a thinker who has contemplated the bloody hurt of that hunt, considered the pains of Time, Distance, and Dimension, and examined critically the way myth resolves them, can properly stretch a tale, de…
Captive Utterance
NEIL SCHMITZ Captive Utterance: Black Hawk and Indian Irony This is the text, Black Hawk: An Autobiography (1833), edited by Donald Jackson, an Illini Book from the University of Illinois Press, now entering the canon in American literature, coming in after The Narrative of the Life ofFrederick Doughss (1845), taking its place in the category of representative nineteenth-century American autobiography . John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932), on…
Tall Tale, Tall Talk
W 7HAT IS A TALL TALE? And what is tall talk? A tall tale is a folk tale seized by the activity of tall talk and construed as a lie. Anyone who memorizes Vladimir Propp's thirty-one episodes can tell a folk tale, recite the legend of a hunt, but only a thinker who has contemplated the bloody hurt of that hunt, considered the pains of Time, Distance, and Dimension, and examined critically the way myth resolves them, can properly stretch a tale, de…
Tall Tale, Tall Talk
W 7HAT IS A TALL TALE? And what is tall talk? A tall tale is a folk tale seized by the activity of tall talk and construed as a lie. Anyone who memorizes Vladimir Propp's thirty-one episodes can tell a folk tale, recite the legend of a hunt, but only a thinker who has contemplated the bloody hurt of that hunt, considered the pains of Time, Distance, and Dimension, and examined critically the way myth resolves them, can properly stretch a tale, de…
Of Huck and Alice
"Must Horses Drink. Or "Any Language Is Funny If You Don't Understand It
Captive Utterance
NEIL SCHMITZ Captive Utterance: Black Hawk and Indian Irony This is the text, Black Hawk: An Autobiography (1833), edited by Donald Jackson, an Illini Book from the University of Illinois Press, now entering the canon in American literature, coming in after The Narrative of the Life ofFrederick Doughss (1845), taking its place in the category of representative nineteenth-century American autobiography . John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932), on…
Classics of Civil War Fiction
The American Civil War is widely recognized as the single most defining event in U.S. history, a time of tragic upheaval that greatly influenced the character of the nation and helped to chart its course for generations afterward. Much of the fiction focusing on the war not only has literary merit but also offers important views into the cultural, political, and socioeconomic conditions and nuances of the time. This collection of essays, written …
Doing the Fathers
Voice of Deliverance
White Robe's Dilemma
This volume presents a postmodernist reading of a series of texts by and about American Indians. “White Robe's dilemma,” which provides the title of this work, refers to a legendary war leader of the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Rather than negotiate with the French, White Robe broke off diplomatic relations and engaged in a futile war that led ultimately to his death. He became, as Neil Schmitz expresses it, “beyond European words.” Nonetheless, hi…
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