Autore	Elkins Andrew <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Forth Worth, : Texas Christian University Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (361 p.)
Soggetto topico	American poetry - West (U.S.) - History and criticism American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism Poets, American - Homes and haunts - West (U.S.) Place (Philosophy) in literature Wilderness areas in literature Landscapes in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature Setting (Literature)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-585-44157-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Sand, wind, and buttes: Peggy Pond Church's lifetime love affair with the desert Southwest -- Hootin' and hollerin' in the Rocky Mountain West: cowboy poetry, the land, and the modern reader -- A terrible beauty: the Alaskan wilderness and the poetry of John Haines -- Dispossessed: the poetic inferno of Adrian Louis -- Surf, rivers, and salmon: the Northwest in the poetry of Richard Hugo -- California as the world in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456109203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (683 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/002
Soggetto topico	American literature - 17th century - History and criticism American literature - 18th century - History and criticism Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8032-6532-8 0-8032-6531-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	From Hunahpu to Hiawatha : the passion of corn and the sublimation of violence in native American mythmaking / Paul G. Zolbrod -- When the East was West : Vinland in the American imaginary / Annette Kolodny -- Accommodating presence : Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the problem of literary translation on the American frontier / Cassander L. Smith -- Captured by genre : Mary Rowlandson's Western imagination on the nineteenth-century frontier / John David Miles -- The royal frontier : colonist and native relations in Aphra Behn's Virginia / Rebecca M. Lush -- Frontier commonwealths : violence, private interest, and the public good in Hennepin's A new discovery of a vast country in America / David J. Peterson -- The bad guys wear tricornered hats : the Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II hide painting in Spanish and French colonial literature / Gordon M. Sayre -- The removes of Harriot Stuart : Charlotte Lennox and the birth of the western / Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon -- Contrast and contradiction : the emergent West in Crevecoeur's regional theory / Tara Penry -- The business of heaven and earth : toponymy and the imperial idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante journal of 1776 / George English Brooks -- An eighteenth-century narrative of encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West : Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri river / Robert Woods Sayre -- Harmonizing the "West": Jefferson's account of Louisiana and American identity / Renaud Contini.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458929403321

Autore	Kollin Susan
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/3278
Collana	Postwestern Horizons
Soggetto topico	American literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8032-8665-1 0-8032-8663-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Transnational Cowboys and the Middle East""; ""1. "I Longed to Be an Arab": The Eastern Originsof the Western""; ""2. From the Moors: The Easts and Wests of Willa Cather""; ""3. On Savagery and Civilization: Buffalo Bill and the East""; ""4. The Persian Peddler and the Egyptian Elixir: Racial Intimacies in Oklahoma!""; ""5. Specters of Loss: Violence and the National Missionin Post- 9/11 Westerns""; ""6. East of the Spaghetti Western: Global Travelsof the Genre"" ""Conclusion: Once Upon a Time in the Middle East""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461639603321

Autore	Griffith Jean Carol
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/9287
Collana	Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Soggetto topico	American literature - Women authors - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women authors, American - Political and social views Regionalism in literature Local history in literature Democracy in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8173-8239-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Writing region in the new century -- "Is New York such a labyrinth?" : street life and amalgamation in Wharton's and Glasgow's city -- Men of the mob and "fascinatingly American" women -- "Et que cetait comme dans le livre" : Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and all that jazz -- "Virginia is not dead but sleepeth": segregation and the "family Black and white" in Glasgow's and Cather's South -- Family reunion : slavery as usable past -- A house divided : the interracial family and the white supremacist community -- "Fortunate country" : old immigrants and new women in Cather's and Wharton's West -- How the West was whitened -- New women and the world of business -- Conclusion: "Always, everywhere, inferior".
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461658903321