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John Gneisenau Neihardt | | Variant Name: |
John G. Neihardt, John G(neisenau) Neihardt, John Neihardt | | Birth Date: |
January 8, 1881 | | Death Date: |
November 3, 1973 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of John Gneisenau Neihardt
1375 words, approx. 4.6 pages
 John G. Neihardt is most widely known for his book about a Sioux holy man, Black Elk Speaks (1932), but he considered himself a poet and designated as his masterwork the five-part epic, A Cycle of the West, begun in 1913 and completed in 1941. In his ear... summary from source:
Biography of John Gneisenau Neihardt
6249 words, approx. 20.8 pages
 Throughout his seventy-five-year career as a writer, John G. Neihardt's aspiration was to be the epic poet of the American West; he is remembered chiefly, however, for his work as an editor. His ambition was to fulfill what he became convinced at an earl... summary from source:
Biography of John Gneisenau Neihardt
4153 words, approx. 13.8 pages
John Neihardt's reputation rests on five historical epics begun in 1912, completed in 1941, and collected in the 656-page volume, A Cycle of the West (1949). The heroes are the white trappers who opened the Rocky Mountains to fur trading, the explorers w...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Black Elk Speaks Summary
4,369 words, approx. 15 pagesBlack Elk Speaks by John Neihardt Acollaborative effort, Black Elk Speaks was the result of a series of interviews between Nick Black Elk, an American Indian from a Sioux tribe, and John Neihardt, a white poet. Black Elk, a holy man who fought in the... summary from source:
 Black Elk Speaks Information
218 words, approx. 1 pages
For the song "Black Elk Speaks" by Hawkwind, see Space Bandits . Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 autobiography of an Oglala Sioux medicine man as told to John Neihardt . In the summer of 1930, as part of his research into the Native American perspective on...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sally Mccluskey
1,060 words, approx. 4 pages
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken was read at the annual meeting of the Western Literature Association in October 1971.] Black Elk Speaks has been many things to many people, and has been studied at various times as anthropology, as sociology, as psychology, and as history. It has been cited as evidence of a religious revival and used as an ecological handbook. But no one, as far as I know, has written about Black Elk Speaks as literature, and while its protagonist, Black Elk, has become a sort of... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Lucile F. Aly
228 words, approx. 1 pages
[Black Elk Speaks] is told in language that suggests Indian idiom, as in Neihardt's Omaha stories. Short sentences, simple syntax and connective words, Indian expressions ("Yellow metal" for "gold"; "four-leggeds" for "horses"; "horse-backs" for "horses and riders") created the impression of Indian speech so well that some critics mistakenly assumed Neihardt had simply typed up Enid's notes verbatim, a notion t...
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