03034nam 2200685 a 450 991095779970332120240516113120.097815872998891587299887(CKB)2550000000035350(EBL)843338(OCoLC)721929145(SSID)ssj0000525951(PQKBManifestationID)11913823(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525951(PQKBWorkID)10508599(PQKB)11300560(MiAaPQ)EBC843338(MdBmJHUP)muse3021(Au-PeEL)EBL843338(CaPaEBR)ebr10468989(Perlego)2958330(EXLCZ)99255000000003535020100927d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSum of the parts the mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing /by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20111 online resource (186 p.)American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9781587299872 1587299879 Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Let S = meaningful space: the mathematics of region and place -- Sets and unsettlement: region, power, and resistance in New England writing -- An incompleteness theorem of region: Stegner and the American West -- Faulkner and the American South -- Prime real estate: the Midwest, history, and regional identity -- Epilogue: null set-ecological regions and cultural regions.Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. In this lively new book, writing in the spirit of these understandings, Kent Ryden engagingly examines works of American regional writing to show us how literary partisans of place create and recreate, attack and defend, argue over and dramatize the meaning and identity of their regions in the pages of their books. American land and life series.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismRegionalism in literaturePlace (Philosophy) in literatureRegionalismUnited StatesAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Regionalism in literature.Place (Philosophy) in literature.Regionalism810.9/3581810.93581Ryden Kent C.1959-477075Franklin Wayne1813490MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957799703321Sum of the parts4367972UNINA