The American West as Living Space
Author: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780472063758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West
Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 131657802X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form. Written by prominent international scholars, the essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors, including major figures in the Native American, Hispanic, Asian American, and African American movements. Treatments range from environmental and ecopoetic to transnational and transcultural, reflecting the richness of the field. This volume places the literature in deep historical context and features a chronology and a bibliography for further reading. It will be an essential guide for students of literature of the American West and of American literature generally.
Marking the Sparrow's Fall
Author: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780805062960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.
The American West and the Nazi East
Author: C. Kakel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 023030706X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy employing new 'optics' and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections between America's 'western' empire and Nazi Germany's 'eastern' empire, linking histories previously thought of as totally unrelated and leading readers towards a deep revisioning of the 'American West' and the 'Nazi East'.
Environmental Problems in America's Garden of Eden
Author: Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780815334590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch
Author: A. Thomas Cole
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0816552827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pitchfork Ranch is more than another dusty homestead tucked away in a corner of the Southwest. It is a place with a story to tell about the most pressing crisis to confront humankind. It is a place where one couple is working every day to right decades of wrongs. It is a place of inspiration and promise. It is an invitation to join the struggle for a better planet. Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Rancher-owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape. Today the 11,300 acres that make up the Pitchfork Ranch provide an important setting for carbon sequestration, wildlife habitats, and space for the reintroduction of endangered or threatened species. Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch weaves together stories of mine strikers, cattle ranching, and the climate crisis into an important and inspiring call to action. For anyone who has wondered how they can help, the Pitchfork Ranch provides an inspiring way forward.
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country
Author: Mark Fiege
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published:
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1496238370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: From Asia to the Pacific Northwest
Author: Karen K. Gaul
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1315500957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia.
The Poetics and Politics of the Desert
Author: Catrin Gersdorf
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9042024968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
Author: Sabine Höhler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 131731753X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler’s study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the way this latter-day ark was invoked by politicians, environmentalists, cultural historians, writers of science fiction and many others across three decades.
