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Rooted : seven Midwest writers of place / by David R. Pichaske ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pichaske, David R.
- Series:
- American land and life series.
- American land and life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Middle West--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Setting (Literature).
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West.
- Authors, American.
- Middle West--In literature.
- Middle West.
- Middle West--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Pichaske has been writing and teaching about midwestern literature for three decades. In Rooted, by paying close attention to text, landscape, and biography, he examines the relationship between place and art. His focus is on seven midwestern authors who came of age toward the close of the twentieth century, their lives and their work grounded in distinct places: Dave Etter in small-town upstate Illinois; Norbert Blei in Door County, Wisconsin; William Kloefkorn in southern Kansas and Nebraska; Bill Holm in Minneota, Minnesota; Linda Hasselstrom in Hermosa, South Dakota; Jim Heynen in Si
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Midwestern Literature; 2 Dave Etter: Call it Cornbelt Baroque; 3 William Kloefkorn: Looking Back over the Shoulder of Memory; 4 Norbert Blei: Portrait of the Artist as an Outsider; 5 Linda Hasselstrom: It Is ""Like Far""; 6 Bill Holm: Holm and Away; 7 Jim Heynen: Parables of Innocence and Experience; 8 Jim Harrison: Reluctant Postmodernist; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587296734
- 158729673X
- OCLC:
- 219755555
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