可借阅:*
图书馆 | 资料类型 | 排架号 | 子计数 | 书架位置 | 状态 | 图书预约 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
正在检索... Science | Book | 810.8 Q25G 2003 | 1 | Stacks | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... Science | Book | PS271 .G763 2003 | 1 | Stacks | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
链接这些题名
已订购
摘要
摘要
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore changes that would embolden the people of the Plains to continue to call home this place they have learned to value in spite of its persistent challenges. nbsp; The infinite variety of the Great Plains landscape and its people unfolds in works by writers as diverse as Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), Langston Hughes, Wes Jackson, Garrison Keillor, William Least Heat-Moon, Kathleen Norris, Wright Morris, Francis Parkman, O. E. Rölvaag, Mari Sandoz, William Stafford, Mark Twain, Douglas Unger, James Welch (Blackfeet), and Canadians Sharon Butala and Sinclair Ross. From tribal histories to the impressions of travelers today, from tales of isolation and nature's furious storms to accounts of efforts to build communities, from flights of fancy to nuanced observations of the ecology of the grasslands, this comprehensive volume provides a history of the intricate relationships of land and people in the Great Plains.
评论 (2)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
The land of linear horizons, the Great Plains summon imagination from any writer who would set a poem, novel, or essay in them. From the explorers, settlers, and Native Americans who have done so, the editors anchor this anthology with famous scriveners such as James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and Louise Erdrich, as well as a wealth of authors far less famed. No matter the author's reputation, the vast and capricious land influences every piece here, which Quantic and Hafen arrange in conventional groupings. A straight-up look-of-the-land section opens the volume, exemplified by a passage from William Least Heat-Moon's wonderful, deep-drilling PrairyErth (1991). The experience of the Plains Indians is represented not only by the classic writings of Black Elk but also by powerful recollections of the vanished life by Zitkala-\xb3 a, active in the early 1900s. With a section on literature inspired by the settler experience (e.g., O. E. Rolvaag's novels), this treasury contains more than 100 excerpted selections. Well worth a library's consideration despite its expense. --Gilbert Taylor Copyright 2003 Booklist
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
This is an eclectic mix of stories, poems, and essays that explore the rich texture of the Great Plains landscape and people. The literary selections, chosen by editors Quantic (English & Great Plains studies, Wichita State Univ.) and Hafen (English, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas), are divided into five sections-"The Lay of the Land," "Natives and Newcomers on the Great Plains," "Arriving and Settling In," "Adapting to a New Country," and "The Great Plains Community"-and represent authors such as William Stafford, N. Scott Momaday, Kathleen Norris, O.E. Rolvaag, Willa Cather, James Welch, and Paul A. Johnsgard. The readings, as rich as the landscape, address geography, ecology, history, the transformation of the land, the adaptation of people to climate and isolation, and the experience of the Great Plains as both a sense of place and a state of mind. An excellent selection of writing, this is strongly recommended for all academic and public libraries.-Sue Samson, Univ. of Montana, Missoula (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Foreword: What Is in This Reader | p. xi |
Introduction: Toward a Definition of the Great Plains | p. xvii |
Part 1. The Lay of the Land | |
The Nature of the Plains: Impressions | p. 3 |
Excerpt from The Names | p. 4 |
Excerpt from Great Plains | p. 15 |
The Subtlety of Land | p. 24 |
The Flow of the River | p. 37 |
Atop the Mound | p. 44 |
Plains Nature: Natural Histories | p. 49 |
The Lawns of God | p. 50 |
In Response to a Question | p. 68 |
Songs | p. 70 |
Excerpt from The Rites of Autumn | p. 73 |
Seasons of the Sandhill Crane | p. 82 |
Spring 4 | p. 88 |
From a Naturalist's Notebook | p. 93 |
Coffee Cup Cafe | p. 95 |
Red Glow in the Western Sky | p. 97 |
Under Old Nell's Skirt | p. 100 |
Another Tornado Dream | p. 105 |
The Question Mark in the Circle | p. 107 |
Part 2. Natives and Newcomers on the Great Plains | |
First Stories: Native American Accounts | p. 123 |
When the Buffalo Herd Went West | p. 125 |
A Legend of Devil's Lake | p. 130 |
The Great Vision | p. 136 |
Crow Butte | p. 151 |
The Holy Dog | p. 152 |
Excerpt from Waterlily | p. 154 |
Impressions of an Indian Childhood | p. 166 |
Father's Milk | p. 179 |
Grace | p. 193 |
Deer Dancer | p. 194 |
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash ... | p. 196 |
Deer Ghost | p. 197 |
Stories of Exploration and Travel: Newcomers' Accounts | p. 199 |
Excerpts from "The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado," | p. 202 |
Excerpt from The Lewis and Clark Journals | p. 207 |
Excerpt from From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains | p. 218 |
On the Trail | p. 231 |
October \ From the Back Screen of the Country | p. 241 |
Excerpts from Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico | p. 244 |
The Grand Prairie--A Buffalo Hunt | p. 251 |
The Platte and the Desert | p. 258 |
Preface to The Oregon Trail, 4th ed. | p. 266 |
Preface to The Oregon Trail, illustrated ed. | p. 268 |
Land of the Crippled Snake | p. 270 |
Excerpts from Roughing It | p. 273 |
Part 3. Arriving and Settling in | |
Pioneers | p. 285 |
Ishmael Bush's Camp | p. 288 |
Prairie Land | p. 297 |
Settlers | p. 305 |
Calling Myself Home | p. 307 |
Red Clay | p. 308 |
Heritage | p. 309 |
Return: Buffalo | p. 310 |
Crossings | p. 312 |
Among the Corn Rows | p. 315 |
A Story of the Highlands | p. 334 |
September \ Peru, Kansas | p. 339 |
Home-founding | p. 342 |
A New Homestead | p. 369 |
The Farm on the Great Plains | p. 374 |
God's Country | p. 376 |
Excerpt from Killing Custer | p. 389 |
Dear John Wayne | p. 407 |
Part 4. Adapting to a New Country | |
Surviving Nature's Storms | p. 411 |
Wickedness | p. 413 |
A Field of Wheat | p. 426 |
Dust Bowl (A Sequence) | p. 434 |
The Water Witch | p. 437 |
Creating Communities in America | p. 445 |
Neighbour Rosicky | p. 447 |
Excerpt from Peder Victorious | p. 471 |
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records | p. 481 |
A Gravestone Made of Wheat | p. 491 |
What the Indian Means to America | p. 504 |
Americanize the First American | p. 507 |
End of the Failed Metaphor | p. 512 |
Oklahoma, 1922 | p. 520 |
Part 5. The Great Plains Community | |
The Great Plains Community | p. 529 |
The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop | p. 531 |
Dance | p. 542 |
Carnival | p. 552 |
The Old Halvorson Place | p. 560 |
A Person in My Life | p. 574 |
Wild Land | p. 581 |
Excerpt from The Home Place | p. 611 |
Excerpt from Badlands | p. 622 |
Excerpt from Leaving the Land | p. 629 |
A Tropical Holiday | p. 641 |
Collection | p. 651 |
Life Is Good | p. 654 |
Home on the Range | p. 659 |
Red-Letter Days | p. 669 |
The Tomahawk Factory | p. 678 |
Going to the Post Office | p. 694 |
The Rescued Year | p. 698 |
Epilogue | |
Sustaining America's Grasslands | p. 703 |
Sea Change | p. 706 |
Matfield Green | p. 713 |
Source Acknowledgments | p. 723 |
Index of Works by Author | p. 729 |