The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Plains writers as Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. Throughout, Diane Dufva Quantic is aware of the region s collective social and cultural history aware of the immensely fruitful clash between that complex history and Plains myth (such as Garden of the World and Great American Desert ). In the vast and changeable Great Plains, as Wright Morris once...
The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Pl...
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore changes that would...
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems...