American road literature / editor, Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Primeau, Ronald, editor.

Central Michigan University.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides readers with essays that present an overview of American road literature, while exploring its cultural and historical contexts, and offering close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. A list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes, is also included.

Contents:

On American road literature / Ronald Primeau

Critical contexts : Critical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre / Ann Brigham ; Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday / Marilyn Judith Atlas ; Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature / Barry Alford ; American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home / John Rohrkemper

Critical readings : Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road / Dominic Ording ; Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" / Ann Brigham ; Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven ; Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers / Richmond Adams ; Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions / Deborah Paes de Barros ; The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic / David Bain ; Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" / Christian Knoeller ; "The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate / Caroline Maun ; Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel / Maureen N. Eke ; "Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris / Marybeth Pringle ;

Shoreline sansaras / Arvid F. Sponberg ; Key to the highway: the road to the blues / Phil Patton ; Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest / Steven K. Bailey ; A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday / Matthew Low.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2013).

ISBN:

9781299311459

1299311458

9781429838351

1429838353

OCLC:

832313963