The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American HeartlandOhio University Press, 2006年2月15日 - 272 頁 The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest. Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explains their approaches. William Barillas treats five important Midwestern pastoralists—Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, and Jim Harrison—in separate chapters. He also discusses Jane Smiley, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Paul Gruchow, and others. For these writers, the aim of writing is not merely intellectual and aesthetic, but democratic and ecological. In depicting and promoting commitment to local communities, human and natural, they express their love for, their understanding of, and their sense of place in the American Midwest. Students and serious readers, as well as scholars in the growing field of literature and the environment, will appreciate this study of writers who counter alienation and materialism in modern society. |
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... Black Hawk . Abraham Lincoln , Henry Ford , and Frank Lloyd Wright are American icons , but their midwestern identities are typically understated . The United States , with its heartland some- where in Iowa or Missouri , is heralded as ...
... Black Hawk War , the Indian Re- moval Act , the Minnesota Sioux uprising , and the massacre at Wounded Knee , should ... Dark , 263 ) . Native American cultures , despite that greed and the dubious benevolence of a complicit government ...
... Black Hawk had defied federal orders by leading his people back to their ancestral lands in Illi- nois from temporary residence in Iowa . A war ensued , which for Black Hawk's people turned into a flight from state militia and federal ...
... Black Hawk brings to the surface an entire subtext of Native American history . Leopold summons that same history in his essay “ A Prairie Birthday , ” about a long - lived native plant in a country cemetery : " It may have been older ...
... Black Hawk : An Autobiography ( 1832 ) and proceeding to the novels of Louise Erdrich . It would treat nineteenth- century fiction , poetry , and memoirs of settlement , with special empha- sis on the vigorous literary scene based in ...
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3 Aldo Leopold | 84 |
4 Theodore Roethke | 105 |
5 James Wright | 141 |
6 Jim Harrison | 169 |
7 Further Views | 206 |
Notes | 227 |
Works Cited | 241 |
Index | 251 |