Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Davy Crockett
This children’s biography of Davy Crockett blends folklore and historical research to show how a frontier figure became a folk hero. It is less about myth alone than about the making of myth.
Work Information
The man and the legend are kept in the same frame.
Constance Rourke’s Davy Crockett is a biography for younger readers that follows the frontier hero through legend and history. The book is especially interested in how a public myth takes shape around a real person.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Nebraska Pr
- Published
- 1998-06-01
- Pages
- 276 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780803289673
- ISBN-10
- 0803289677
- Price
- 18272 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/19th Century
Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Davy Crockett , published in 1934, pioneered in showing the backwoodsmans transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the Crockett literature.
Constance Rourke (18851941) was an American cultural historian and is also known for her classic American Humor. Michael A. Lofaro is a professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Tennessee. His numerous works include an edition of Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, 17861986 .
Reviews
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Said no dust cover although pictue has one
Didn't mind no dust cover but the book was dirty and though I clean it as best I could, I not give it as a gift.
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Good
I learned more things about Davy Crockett that I never knew. Great book !!