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All Our Stories Are Here - Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Brady Harrison is a professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature and the editor of a scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune.   Contributors: William W. Bevis, Nancy Cook, Steve Davenport, Tamas Dobozy, Roger Dunsmore, Brady Harrison, Matthew Jockers, Gregory L. Morris, Karl Olson, Andrea Opitz, Jim Rains, Lois Welch, and O. Alan Weltzien Klappentext Brady Harrison is a professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author of Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature and the editor of a scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis¿s Soldiers of Fortune.Contributors: William W. Bevis, Nancy Cook, Steve Davenport, Tamas Dobozy, Roger Dunsmore, Brady Harrison, Matthew Jockers, Gregory L. Morris, Karl Olson, Andrea Opitz, Jim Rains, Lois Welch, and O. Alan Weltzien Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses a diverse and expanded vision of Montana literature! offering new readings of both canonical and overlooked texts. The twelve essays in All Our Stories Are Here not only build on the exemplary! foundational work of other writers but also open further interpretative and critical conversations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments   Introduction: Toward a Postpopulist Criticism   Part I: Does Place Matter?1. Burning Montana: Richard Ford's Wildlife and Regional Crisis   Tamas Dobozy2. All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets  Roger Dunsmore3. West of Éire: Butte's Irish Ethos      Matthew L. JockersPart II: Women Writing Montana4. Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope    Nancy Cook5. Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing since 1990  William W. BevisPart III: Gay and Lesbian Literature Under a Big Sky6. West of Desire: Queer Ambivalence in Montana Literature  Karl Olson7. "Just Regular Guys": Homophobia, the Code of the West, and Constructions of Male Identity in Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx   O. Alan WeltzienPart IV: Native Revisions/The Problems of History8. "He Never Wanted to Forget It": Contesting the Idea of History in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded  Jim Rains9. A Haunted Nation: Cultural Narratives and the Persistence of the Indigenous Subject in James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk     Andrea Opitz10. "I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times": The Yellowstone Kelly Novels of Peter Bowen     Gregory L. MorrisPart V: Hugo-Land11. Richard Hugo's Montana Poems: Blue Collars, Indians, and Tough Style      Steve Davenport12. Semicolonial Moments: The History and Influence of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program   Lois M. WelchSelect Bibliography of Montana Writing    Contributors      Index  ...

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Authors Brady Harrison
Assisted by Brady Harrison (Editor)
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.2009
 
EAN 9780803213906
ISBN 978-0-8032-1390-6
No. of pages 296
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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