04406nam 2200673 a 450 991014333240332120230617001729.01-78268-482-41-280-28465-X97866102846581-4051-6518-90-470-99907-10-470-99908-X1-4051-2898-4(CKB)1000000000209990(EBL)214146(OCoLC)437065645(SSID)ssj0000126219(PQKBManifestationID)11143048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126219(PQKBWorkID)10045247(PQKB)10166348(MiAaPQ)EBC214146(Au-PeEL)EBL214146(CaPaEBR)ebr10240414(CaONFJC)MIL28465(EXLCZ)99100000000020999020021025d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to the regional literatures of America[electronic resource] /edited by Charles L. CrowMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.20031 online resource (624 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;21Description based upon print version of record.0-631-22631-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.A COMPANION TO: THE REGIONAL LITERATURES OF AMERICA; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States; 1 Contemporary Regionalism; 2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism; 3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers; 4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past; 5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal; 6 Realism and Regionalism; 7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave; 8 Regionalism and Ecology9 The City as Region10 Indigenous Peoples and Place; 11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean; PART II Mapping Regions; 12 New England Literature and Regional Identity; 13 The Great Plains; 14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest; 15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque; 16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths; 17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon; 18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country; 19 The Sagebrush School Revived20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts; 22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley; 23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region; 24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest; 25 Texas and the Great Southwest; 26 Hawai'i; PART III Some Regionalist Masters; 27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West; 28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions; 29 Willa Cather's Glittering Regions30 ""I have seen America emerging"": Mary Austin's Regionalism31 ""I have never recovered from the country"": The American West of Wallace Stegner; IndexThe Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;21.American literatureHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcRegionalism in literatureHandbooks, manuals, etcAmerican literatureHistory and criticismRegionalism in literature810.9Crow Charles L950989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143332403321A companion to the regional literatures of America2257305UNINA02287nam 2200565 a 450 991077866740332120230421033215.00-309-17487-20-309-52447-40-585-00176-6(CKB)110986584752002(EBL)3375761(SSID)ssj0000198308(PQKBManifestationID)11179103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198308(PQKBWorkID)10169129(PQKB)11652229(MiAaPQ)EBC3375761(Au-PeEL)EBL3375761(CaPaEBR)ebr10041182(OCoLC)940510183(EXLCZ)9911098658475200219980202d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMars sample return[electronic resource] issues and recommendations /Task Group on Issues in Sample Return, Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research CouncilWashington, D.C. National Academy Press19971 online resource (58 p.)The compass seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-309-05733-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-43).Front Matter; Preface; Contents; Executive Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 The Possibility of Extant Life on Mars; 3 The Significance of Martian Meteorites; 4 The Potential for Large-Scale Effects; 5 Scientific Investigations That Could Reduce Uncertainty; 6 Evaluation and Characterization of Samples Returned from Mars; 7 The Sample-Receiving Facility; 8 Program Oversight; 9 Technology Issues; References; Appendix Letter of RequestCompass series (Washington, D.C.)Mars surface samplesSpace vehiclesContaminationMars surface samples.Space vehiclesContamination.919.9/23/04National Research Council (U.S.).Task Group on Issues in Sample Return.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778667403321Mars sample return3740832UNINA