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UNINA9910781134903321 |
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Cella Matthew J. C. <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew J.C. Cella; foreword by Wayne Franklin |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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American land and life series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - Great Plains - History and criticism |
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Great Plains In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword by Wayne Franklin; Acknowledgments; 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 WaterEpilogue: Pastoral Art and the Beautiful; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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" |
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