Deep Map Country : Literary Cartography of the Great Plains /

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"Scholarly study of Great Plains nonfiction writers in the genre of "deep mapping", a genre that weaves together strata of narrative that includes natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and inter-textual material"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maher, Susan Naramore (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatur
Literature.
American prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Prose americaine > Grandes Plaines > Histoire et critique.
American prose literature > Great Plains > History and criticism.
Great Plains
Great Plains.
Grandes Plaines > Dans la litterature.
Great Plains > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Deep Mapping the Great Plains: Surveying the Literary Cartography of Place 1
  • 2 Deep Mapping History: Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth: (a deep map) 35
  • 3 Deep Mapping the Biome: The Biology of Place in Don Gayton's The Wheatgrass Mechanism, John Janovy Jr.'s Dunwoody Pond, and Wes Jackson's Becoming Native to This Place 71
  • 4 Deep Mapping Dimensions: Excavating Time and Space in Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey and John McPhee's Rising from the Plains 105
  • 5 Deep Mapping Lived Space: "Layers of Presence" in Julene Bair's One Degree West, Sharon Butala's Wild Stone Heart, and Linda Hasselstrom's Feels Like Far 138
  • 6 Coda: Spiritual Deep Mapping and Great Plains Vernacular 169.

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