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Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas. It ranges broadly in literary genres and dates from the time of the first European contact . Representative authors include Mary Austin Holley and Katherine Anne Porter .
The Texas Institute of Letters is a non-profit Honor Society founded by William Harvey Vann in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and to recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s elected membership consists of the state’s most respected writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, and scholarship.
In Norway, "Texas" is used as slang for something chaotic and uncontrolled, as influenced from popular Norwegian depictions of cowboy culture and Western literature associated with Texas. "Der var helt texas! (That was totally texas!)" has mostly pejorative connotations, but can also refer to a party out of control or a runaway success. [11]
Pages in category "Texas literature" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, commonly known as TSLL, is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the humanities.It publishes essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and all periods of literary history, with selected issues centering on special topics.
Several African-American-owned newspapers are published in Houston. Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans."
Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. (July 12, 1873 – June 16, 1945) was an American linguist and professor of English at the University of Texas.He was a co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society along with John Lomax, edited the first anthology of Texas literature, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of e.e. cummings.
Texas (novel) Texas Fever (novel) The Texas-Israeli War: 1999; Texasville (novel) That Old Ace in the Hole; The Evening Star (novel) The Late Child; The Thicket (novel) This Is My America; Tideland; Track of the Cat (novel) The Transgressors; The Twelve (novel) The Two-Bear Mambo