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The extraordinary work of ordinary writing [[electronic resource] ] : Annie Ray's diary / / Jennifer Sinor



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Autore: Sinor Jennifer <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The extraordinary work of ordinary writing [[electronic resource] ] : Annie Ray's diary / / Jennifer Sinor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina: 808.06692
808/.06692
Soggetto topico: Autobiography - Authorship
Diaries - History and criticism
Women pioneers - United States
Frontier and pioneer life - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Krutch'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 to
Titolo autorizzato: The extraordinary work of ordinary writing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-430-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450797603321
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