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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction
- 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness: Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow"
- 2. Pastoralism and enclosure: Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass"
- 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies: Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels
- 4. Patches of green and fields of dust: Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl"
- 5. Healing the wounds of history: Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water"
- Epilogue: Pastoral art and the beautiful.