LEADER 02946nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910817934503321 005 20240516113120.0 010 $a1-58729-988-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035350 035 $a(EBL)843338 035 $a(OCoLC)721929145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10508599 035 $a(PQKB)11300560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843338 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843338 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468989 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035350 100 $a20100927d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSum of the parts $ethe mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing /$fby Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican land and life series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-987-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aProponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. In this lively new book, writing in the spirit of these understandings, Kent Ryden engagingly examines works of American regional writing to show us how literary partisans of place create and recreate, attack and defend, argue over and dramatize the meaning and identity of their regions in the pages of their books. 410 0$aAmerican land and life series. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRegionalism in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aRegionalism$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRegionalism in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aRegionalism 676 $a810.9/3581 676 $a810.93581 700 $aRyden$b Kent C.$f1959-$0477075 701 $aFranklin$b Wayne$01620615 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817934503321 996 $aSum of the parts$93953480 997 $aUNINA