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Title:

Place in American fiction : excursions and explorations / edited by H.L. Weatherby and George Core.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Setting (Literature)
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Local color in literature.

Other Authors:

Weatherby, Harold L., 1934-
Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006.
Core, George.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: a ball of golden thread / George Core -- Thoughts on fictional places / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Places we have come from, places we have been / George Garrett -- The Delta / Charles East -- One writer's sense of place / Elizabeth Spencer -- Place in my fiction / Martha Lacy Hall -- Imagination in place / Wendell Barry -- Faulkner's wilderness / H.L. Weatherby -- Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda stories: portrait of the artist as a rebellious Texas belle / William Pratt -- Place in Robert Penn Warren's life and work / Joseph Blotner -- The outside of the inside: the vision of time and place in Eudora Welty / Lewis P. Simpson -- Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue -- St. Paul boy / Scott Donaldson -- Purgatory in the midwest: the white martyrdom of Urban Roche / Robert Benson -- "A tyrannous sense of place": notes on Wallace Stegner's lyrical realism / Thomas Bontly -- Early Updike: wandering in the fields of the Lord / Pat C. Hoy II -- Places and spaces in the fiction of Walter Sullivan / Martha E. Cook -- Walter Sullivan: a profile / George Core -- Winter in the mountains / David Middleton.

ISBN:

9780826215635 (alk. paper)
0826215637 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004017996

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)