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Author:

Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Title:

Sum of the parts : the mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing / by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xv, 164 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Regionalism in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Regionalism--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Let S = meaningful space : the mathematics of region and place -- Sets and unsettlement : region, power, and resistance in New England writing -- An incompleteness theorem of region : Stegner and the American West -- Faulkner and the American South -- Prime real estate : the Midwest, history, and regional identity -- Epilogue : null set-ecological regions and cultural regions.

Series:

American land and life series

ISBN:

1587299887 (ebk.)
9781587299889 (ebk.)
1587299879 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781587299872 (pbk : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)666878024

LCCN:

2010040201

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)