Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State (Western Literature Series) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0874177596 ISBN 13: 9780874177596

Verlag: University of Nevada Press, 2008

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Praise for "Literary ""Nevada" "This book is a wonderful gift to Nevada's people, to westerners in general, and to a confused nation seeking to understand its roots. It's full of vivid, compelling storytelling that can lead readers to an imaginative understanding of Nevada and western life and literature as they have evolved. This is a very special defining book. We inhabit our own nation, and its literature is beginning to get due recognition. This book will be an important part of that movement." --William Kittredge, editor of "The ""Last Best Place"": A ""Montana"" Anthology" "This book is a wonderful gift to Nevada's people, to westerners in general, and to a confused nation seeking to understand its roots. It's full of vivid, compelling storytelling that can lead readers to an imaginative understanding of Nevada and western life and literature as they have evolved. This is a very special defining book. We inhabit our own nation, and its literature is beginning to get due recognition. This book will be an important part of that movement." --William Kittredge, editor of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. This book is a wonderful gift to Nevada s people, to westerners in general, and to a confused nation seeking to understand its roots. It s full of vivid, compelling storytelling that can lead readers to an imaginative understanding of Nevada and western life and literature as they have evolved. This is a very special defining book. We inhabit our own nation, and its literature is beginning to get due recognition. This book will be an important part of that movement. --William Kittredge, editor of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology." "In the best sense of the word, this hefty book is a sampler of whatliterary fare the state offers. It is obvious that this sampler is also an advertisementfor a feast." --;/div>--Lawrence I. Berkove "Western American Literature "" ""Literary Nevada" is a very fine anthology. It will be of interest to the scholar, the general reader, students in high school and college classrooms, and to tourists. It is beyond me how anyone could read this volume and not head out, forthwith, on Nevada's loneliest of roads." "ISLE"--David Robertson "ISLE "" "Literary Nevada is a very fine anthology. It will be of interest to the scholar, the general reader, students in high school and college classrooms, and to tourists. It is beyond me how anyone could read this volume and not head out, forthwith, on Nevada's loneliest of roads." ISLE--David Robertson "ISLE "" Praise for Literary Nevada "This book is a wonderful gift to Nevada's people, to westerners in general, and to a confused nation seeking to understand its roots. It's full of vivid, compelling storytelling that can lead readers to an imaginative understanding of Nevada and western life and literature as they have evolved. This is a very special defining book. We inhabit our own nation, and its literature is beginning to get due recognition. This book will be an important part of that movement." --William Kittredge, editor of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology

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This book contains over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns.Nevada is a state of paradox and contradiction - home to one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation and to isolated ranches scattered across a sparsely populated backcountry, a place where the lust for sudden wealth has prompted both riotous mining booms and glittering casinos, and where forbidding atomic test sites coexist with alluring tourist meccas. There is remarkable natural diversity here as well, from snow-covered mountains to parched deserts, and an equally diverse population. Nevada's variety and distinctiveness have inspired writers from the beginning of Euro-American contact with the region, and its literary wealth includes the rich oral traditions of its Native American peoples.""Literary Nevada"" is the first comprehensive literary anthology of Nevada. It contains over 200 selections ranging from traditional Native American tales, to explorer and emigrant accounts, to writings from the Comstock Lode and other mining boomtowns, all the way up to the present. There is work by well-known Nevada writers like Mark Twain and Robert Laxalt, by established and emerging writers from all parts of the state, and by some nonresident authors whose work illuminates important facets of the Nevada experience.The book includes sections on cowboy poetry, wild Nevada, travel writing, and nuclear Nevada; narratives about rural life and life in Las Vegas and Reno; poetry and fiction from the state's best contemporary writers; and accounts of the special beauty of Nevada's mountains and deserts. Editor Cheryll Glotfelty provides informative and insightful introductions to each section and author.The selections in ""Literary Nevada"" will engage and delight readers while revealing the complex and exciting diversity of the state's history, people, and life.

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• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0874177596
• ISBN 13: 9780874177596
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 831
• Herausgeber: Glotfelty Cheryll