Regionalism and the Humanities

ISBN: 9780803276345 出版年：2009 页码：372 Mahoney, Timothy R University of Nebraska Press

Introduction: Regionalism and the Humanities: Decline or Revival? - Wendy J. Katz and Timothy R. Mahoney Part One - Sensing Place: The Authority of Nature 1. Dangerous Ground: Landscape in American Fiction - Annie Proulx 2. The Ec(h)ological Conscience: Reflections on the Nature of Human Presence in Environmental Essays by Eisley, Janovy, and Jackson - William Slaymaker 3. "I don't know, but I ain't lost:" Defining the Southwest - Mark Busby 4. A Border Runs Through It: Regional Architecture of the Southwest - Maggie Valentine Part Two - Constructing Place: The Possibility of Local Representation 5. Willa Cather's Case: Region and Reputation - Guy Reynolds 6. Dwelling Within the Place Worth Seeking: Regional Identity, Internal Histories, and the Midwest - Ginette Aley 7. The "Doctor's Wife" Writes from the Northern Plains - Barbara Handy-Marchello 8. The Pleasures of Expectations Met: Popular Genre Forms and the Making of a Sense of Regoin - Nicolas S. Witschi Part Three - Place is a Relationship: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism 9. Regionalism and Realities of Naming - Stephen C. Behrendt 10. The Midwest as a Colony: Transnational Regionalism - Edward Watts 11. Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide: Cather's Thea Kronberg Goes to Chicago - Mark A. Robison 12. Preaching to the Gospel of Higher Vaudeville: Vachel Lindsay's Poetic Journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and Back - Larry W. Moore Part Four - Place is Political: Creating Regional Cultures 13. State Pieces in the U.S. Regions Puzzle: Nevada and the Problem of Fit - Cheryll Glotfelty 14. Imagining Place: Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867 - Kurt E. Kinbacher 15. Architecture Crosses Region: Building in the Grecian Style - Patrick Lee Lucas 16. Musical Life in the South Atlantic: Yesterday and Today - Michael Saffle