Deep Map Country

2014-05-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Susan Naramore Maher
Release : 2014-05-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 025/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Deep Map Country written by Susan Naramore Maher. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scholarly study of Great Plains nonfiction writers in the genre of "deep mapping", a genre that weaves together strata of narrative that includes natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and inter-textual material"--

Deep Map Country

2014-05-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Susan Naramore Maher
Release : 2014-05-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deep Map Country by : Susan Naramore Maher

Download or read book Deep Map Country written by Susan Naramore Maher. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (a deep map), the "deep-map" form of nonfiction and environmental writing defines an innovative and stratigraphic literary genre. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, Susan Naramore Maher explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Maher's Deep Map Country gives readers the first book-length study of the deep-map nonfiction of the Great Plains region, featuring writers as diverse as Julene Bair, Sharon Butala, Loren Eiseley, Don Gayton, Linda Hasselstrom, William Least Heat-Moon, John Janovy Jr., John McPhee, Kathleen Norris, and Wallace Stegner. Deep Map Country examines the many layers of storytelling woven into their essays: the deep time of geology and evolutionary biology; the cultural history of indigenous and settlement communities; the personal stories of encounters with this expansive terrain; the political and industrial stories that have affected the original biome and Plains economies; and the spiritual dimensions of the physical environment that press on everyday realities.

PrairyErth

2014-03-11 History

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Release : 2014-03-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis PrairyErth by : William Least Heat-Moon

Download or read book PrairyErth written by William Least Heat-Moon. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times

American Nations

2012-09-25 History

Author : Colin Woodard
Release : 2012-09-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book American Nations written by Colin Woodard. This book was released on 2012-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.

Slave Country

2005-04-25 History

Author : Adam Rothman
Release : 2005-04-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 743/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slave Country written by Adam Rothman. This book was released on 2005-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.

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