Vision and refuge : essays on the literature of the Great Plains / edited by Virginia Faulkner with Frederick C. Luebke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faulkner, Virginia, 1913-1980.

Luebke, Frederick C., 1927-

University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Center for Great Plains Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Great Plains--In literature.

Great Plains.

Physical Description:

xiv, 146 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, [1982]

Contents:

Black Elk speaks as epic and ritual attempt to reverse history / by Paul A. Olson

Materialism and mysticism in Great Plains literature / by John R. Milton

Agrarian versus frontiersman in Midwestern fiction / by Barbara Meldrum

Mythic aspects of Giants in the earth / by Paul Reigstad

Life on the Great Plains in Scandinavian-American literature / by Dorothy Burton Skårdal

Willa Cather and Plains culture / by Bernice Slote

Oscar Micheaux, Black novelist and film maker / Chester J. Fontenot, Jr.

The Great Plains as refuge in Chicano literature / by Thomás Rivera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803219601

OCLC:

7572579