Rediscovering Vardis Fisher : centennial essays / edited by Joseph M. Flora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flora, Joseph M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Fisher, Vardis.

Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968.

Criticism and interpretation.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, [2000]

Summary:

Vardis Fisher was one of Idaho's most accomplished writers. His attention to western landscape and rural culture left a lasting, albeit controversial, legacy. These twelve evocative essays explore the impact and achievement of Fisher's work and life.

Contents:

Vardis Fisher : a photographic essay / Alan Virta

Vardis Fisher and Dr. Edwin Stuart Robinson : a friendship / Frederick R. Oyer

"Dim immense terror" : literary naturalism in Toilers of the Hills, Dark Bridwell, and In Tragic Life / James H. Maguire

New light in the canyon : Vardis Fisher's Dark Bridwell and American literature of inhabitation / Peter Blakemore

Mothers, yes; the feminists, maybe not / Doris Betts

Vardis Fisher and the Mormons / Stephen L. Tanner

Father to the man : an apology for Fisher's Indians / Mick McAllister

Music, violence, and nature in Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man / Barbara Howard Meldrum

Fisher and Meriwether Lewis / John D.W. Guice

Anthropological view of the Testament of Man / Marilyn Trent Grunkemeyer

"World of Jerusalems" : the Middle East as contested space in Vardis Fisher's Testament of Man / Anne R. Zahlan

Vardis Fisher : an essay in bibliography / Mark Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0893012238

OCLC:

42290591