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- catalog abstract "The Great Plains have long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by writers of that region. Drawing upon studies by cultural geographers, historians, and literary critics, Diane Dufva Quantic creates an expansive portrait of the region, its history, and its literature. Quantic offers insightful readings of a staggering array of authors, including Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. She considers the literature of the Plains and neighboring regions from early representations in such works as James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie, published in 1827, through such contemporary authors as Douglas Unger and Ron Hansen. For all its concentration upon individual writers and works, however, The Nature of the Place is marked by Quantic's sustained attention to the region's collective social and cultural history. Central to that cumulative focus is the constant, immensely fruitful clash between the myths of the Great Plains - myths represented by such phrases as the Garden of the World, the Great American Desert, the Closed Frontier, Manifest Destiny, and the Safety Valve - and the infinitely more complex history of the region. Quantic is always aware of how that clash, while most productive of literature, has made a final, definitive vision of the Great Plains impossible. In so vast and changeable a region it is only fitting that, as Wright Morris once remarked, "Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion."".
- catalog contributor b7830365.
- catalog coverage "Great Plains In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Great Plains Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. Theories of Land and Society: Making the Myths -- 2. The Lure of the West: Searching for the Myths -- 3. Learning to Live on the Land: Testing the Myths -- 4. The Dream Deferred: Acting on the Myths -- 5. The Enclosed Garden: Coming to Terms with Place -- 6. Afloat on the Sea of Grass: Transforming the Myths -- 7. The Unifying Thread: Connecting Place and Language.".
- catalog description "For all its concentration upon individual writers and works, however, The Nature of the Place is marked by Quantic's sustained attention to the region's collective social and cultural history. Central to that cumulative focus is the constant, immensely fruitful clash between the myths of the Great Plains - myths represented by such phrases as the Garden of the World, the Great American Desert, the Closed Frontier, Manifest Destiny, and the Safety Valve - and the infinitely more complex history of the region. Quantic is always aware of how that clash, while most productive of literature, has made a final, definitive vision of the Great Plains impossible. In so vast and changeable a region it is only fitting that, as Wright Morris once remarked, "Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Great Plains have long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by writers of that region. Drawing upon studies by cultural geographers, historians, and literary critics, Diane Dufva Quantic creates an expansive portrait of the region, its history, and its literature. Quantic offers insightful readings of a staggering array of authors, including Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. She considers the literature of the Plains and neighboring regions from early representations in such works as James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie, published in 1827, through such contemporary authors as Douglas Unger and Ron Hansen.".
- catalog extent "xx, 203 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Nature of the place.".
- catalog identifier "0803238002 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Nature of the place.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Nature of the place.".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "813.009/03278 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction Great Plains History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "Great Plains in literature.".
- catalog subject "Myth in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS274 .Q36 1995".
- catalog subject "Place (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Regionalism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Theories of Land and Society: Making the Myths -- 2. The Lure of the West: Searching for the Myths -- 3. Learning to Live on the Land: Testing the Myths -- 4. The Dream Deferred: Acting on the Myths -- 5. The Enclosed Garden: Coming to Terms with Place -- 6. Afloat on the Sea of Grass: Transforming the Myths -- 7. The Unifying Thread: Connecting Place and Language.".
- catalog title "The nature of the place : a study of Great Plains fiction / Diane Dufva Quantic.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".