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082 0 0 _a320.973
245 0 0 _aRegionalism and the humanities /
_cedited and with an introduction by Timothy R. Mahoney and Wendy J. Katz.
260 _aLincoln :
_bUniversity of Nebraska Press,
_c2008.
300 _axxviii, 343 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Regionalism and the humanities : decline or revival? / Wendy J. Katz & Timothy R. Mahoney -- Sensing place : the authority of nature -- Dangerous ground : landscape in American fiction / Annie Proulx -- The ec(h)ological conscience : reflections on the nature of human presence in Great Plains environmental writing / William Slaymaker -- "I don't know, but I ain't lost" : defining the Southwest / Mark Busby -- A border runs through it : looking at regionalism through architecture in the Southwest / Maggie Valentine -- Constructing place : the possibility of local representation -- Willa Cather's case : region and reputation / Guy Reynolds -- Dwelling within the place worth seeking : the Midwest, regional identity, and internal histories / Ginette Aley -- Gendered Boosterism : the "doctor's wife" writes from the new Northwest / Barbara Handy-Marchello -- "With powder smoke and profanity" : genre conventions, regional identity, and the palisade gunfight hoax / Nicolas S. Witschi -- Place is a relationship : regionalism, nationalism, and transnationalism -- Regionalism and the realities of naming / Stephen C. Behrendt -- The Midwest as a colony : transnational regionalism / Edward Watts -- Transcending the urban-rural divide : Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg goes to Chicago / Mark A. Robison -- Preaching the Gospel of higher vaudeville : Vachel Lindsay's poetic journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and back / Larry W. Moore -- Place is political : creating regional cultures -- State pieces in the U.S. regions puzzle : Nevada and the problem of fit / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Imagining place : Nebraska territory, 1854-1867 / Kurt E. Kinbacher -- Architecture crosses region : building in the Grecian style / Patrick Lee Lucas -- Societies and soirees : musical life and regional character in the South Atlantic / Michael Saffle -- List of contributors -- Index.
650 0 _aRegionalism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHumanities
_xStudy and teaching
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRegionalism in literature.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 4 _aRegionalismo
_zEstados Unidos.
650 4 _aHumanidad
_xEstudio y enseñanza
_zEstados Unidos.
650 4 _aRegionalismo en literatura.
650 4 _aCaracterísticas nacionales, americano en literatura.
700 1 _aMahoney, Timothy R.,
_d1953-
700 1 _aKatz, Wendy Jean.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008029369.html
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