TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cella,Matthew J.C.
AU  - Franklin,Wayne
TI  - Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction
T2  - American land and life series
SN  - 9781587299391
AV  - PS274 .C45 2010eb
U1  - 813.009/3278 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Pastoral literature, American
KW  - Place (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Roman américain
KW  - Grandes Plaines
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature pastorale américaine
KW  - Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature
KW  - In literature
KW  - Dans la littérature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index; Introduction: Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction -- 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness: Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow" -- 2. Pastoralism and enclosure: Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass" -- 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies: Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels -- 4. Patches of green and fields of dust: Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl" -- 5. Healing the wounds of history: Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water" -- Epilogue: Pastoral art and the beautiful
N2  - At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land
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