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Regionalism and the humanities /
In the volume's inaugural essay, Annie Proulx discusses landscapes in American fiction, comments on how she constructs characters, and interprets current literary trends. Edward Watts offers a theory of region that argues for comparisons of the United States to other former colonies of Great Br...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Regionalism and the humanities : decline or revival? / Wendy J. Katz & Timothy R. Mahoney
- Sensing place : the authority of nature
- Dangerous ground : landscape in American fiction / Annie Proulx
- The ec(h)ological conscience : reflections on the nature of human presence in Great Plains environmental writing / William Slaymaker
- "I don't know, but I ain't lost" : defining the Southwest / Mark Busby
- A border runs through it : looking at regionalism through architecture in the Southwest / Maggie Valentine
- Constructing place : the possibility of local representation
- Willa Cather's case : region and reputation / Guy Reynolds
- Dwelling within the place worth seeking : the Midwest, regional identity, and internal histories / Ginette Aley
- Gendered Boosterism : the "doctor's wife" writes from the new Northwest / Barbara Handy-Marchello
- "With powder smoke and profanity" : genre conventions, regional identity, and the palisade gunfight hoax / Nicolas S. Witschi
- Place is a relationship : regionalism, nationalism, and transnationalism
- Regionalism and the realities of naming / Stephen C. Behrendt
- The Midwest as a colony : transnational regionalism / Edward Watts
- Transcending the urban-rural divide : Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg goes to Chicago / Mark A. Robison
- Preaching the Gospel of higher vaudeville : Vachel Lindsay's poetic journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and back / Larry W. Moore
- Place is political : creating regional cultures
- State pieces in the U.S. regions puzzle : Nevada and the problem of fit / Cheryll Glotfelty
- Imagining place : Nebraska territory, 1854-1867 / Kurt E. Kinbacher
- Architecture crosses region : building in the Grecian style / Patrick Lee Lucas
- Societies and soirees : musical life and regional character in the South Atlantic / Michael Saffle
- List of contributors
- Index.