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Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction /
At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and non...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | American land and life series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587299391 1587299399 |