The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Ralph L. Rusk
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1975-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780837179421
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Adam R. Ochonicky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253045991
How do works from film and literature—Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example—imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. Using the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner as a starting point, this book establishes a succession of Midwestern filmic and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century and argues that the manifold properties of nostalgia have continually transformed popular understandings and ideological uses of the Midwest's place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual objects: the projection of nostalgia onto physical landscapes and into the cultural sphere (nostalgic spatiality); nostalgia as a cultural force that regulates behaviors, identities, and appearances (nostalgic violence); and the progressive potential of nostalgia to generate an acknowledgment and possible rectification of ways in which the flawed past negatively affects the present (nostalgic atonement). While developing these new conceptions of nostalgia, Ochonicky reveals how an under-examined area of regional study has received critical attention throughout the histories of American film and literature, as well as in related materials and discourses. From the closing of the Western frontier to the polarized political and cultural climate of the 21st century, this book demonstrates how film and literature have been and continue to be vital forums for illuminating the complex interplay of regionalism and nostalgia.
Author : Ralph Leslie Rusk (b. 1888)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0816534136
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Author : Adam R. Ochonicky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253046009
How do works from film and literature—Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example—imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. Using the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner as a starting point, this book establishes a succession of Midwestern filmic and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century and argues that the manifold properties of nostalgia have continually transformed popular understandings and ideological uses of the Midwest's place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual objects: the projection of nostalgia onto physical landscapes and into the cultural sphere (nostalgic spatiality); nostalgia as a cultural force that regulates behaviors, identities, and appearances (nostalgic violence); and the progressive potential of nostalgia to generate an acknowledgment and possible rectification of ways in which the flawed past negatively affects the present (nostalgic atonement). While developing these new conceptions of nostalgia, Ochonicky reveals how an under-examined area of regional study has received critical attention throughout the histories of American film and literature, as well as in related materials and discourses. From the closing of the Western frontier to the polarized political and cultural climate of the 21st century, this book demonstrates how film and literature have been and continue to be vital forums for illuminating the complex interplay of regionalism and nostalgia.