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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... Ted Kooser , and essayist Paul Gruchow , whose writings echo and modify themes developed by their predecessors . My choice of representative authors and my overall perspective on midwestern culture owes something to my own midwestern ...
... Ted Kooser , Stephen Lee , Deborah Popper , Frank Popper , Michael Rockland , and Robert Treu . My thanks also go to Jim Harrison for many kindnesses , including the moving tribute to my late sister , Teresa , in his essay “ Eating ...
... Ted Kooser , are reprinted by permission of Harrison , Kooser , and Copper Canyon Press . The poem " Milkweed " by James Wright , quoted from Above the River : The Complete Poems of James Wright , is from The Branch Will Not Break ...
... Ted Kooser of Nebraska raises this specter in his statement that “ most of the talk about regionalism and sense of place is little more than boosterism . The people doing all of the talking are trying to defend their own writ- ing and ...
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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 |