02996nam 2200685Ia 450 991095565600332120251116204221.01-58729-430-3(CKB)1000000000447520(EBL)837084(OCoLC)56109448(SSID)ssj0000152542(PQKBManifestationID)11150622(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152542(PQKBWorkID)10322941(PQKB)10927810(SSID)ssj0000484284(PQKBManifestationID)11332404(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484284(PQKBWorkID)10594600(PQKB)11036831(MiAaPQ)EBC837084(MdBmJHUP)muse9315(Au-PeEL)EBL837084(CaPaEBR)ebr10354528(EXLCZ)99100000000044752020020319d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe extraordinary work of ordinary writing Annie Ray's diary /Jennifer SinorIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20021 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-833-2 0-87745-832-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.Acknowledgments; Prologue: Annie's Gaze; A Note on the Editing; Introduction: Stories That Matter, the Matter of Stories; 1. A Story of the Diary; Intertext: The Year 1881; 2. Time, Days, and Page; Intertext: The Year 1882; 3. Putting Things to Right Generally; 4. Making Ordinary Writing; Notes; Bibliography; IndexKrutch's trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environment of Arizona's Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the "lower" forms of life: "Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has 'become adapted' to desert conditions. Let us say rather that they have all shown courage and ingenuity in making the best of the world as they found it. And let us remember that if to use such terms in connection with them is a fallacy then it can only be somewhat less a fallacy toAutobiographyAuthorshipDiariesHistory and criticismWomen pioneersUnited StatesDiariesFrontier and pioneer lifeUnited StatesAutobiographyAuthorship.DiariesHistory and criticism.Women pioneersFrontier and pioneer life808.06692808/.06692808.06692Sinor Jennifer1969-801326MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955656003321The extraordinary work of ordinary writing4479307UNINA