Product Description: Pichaske’s stories take us from the halls of academe to small-town Minnesota to a little village on the edge of the Bavarian National Forest. Speaking in voices of a farmer right out of Deliverance, a disgruntled Professor of English, and his dog Harley, Pichaske says what many people think, but few have the courage to say...read more

Product Description: David Pichaske has been writing and teaching about midwestern literature for three decades. In Rooted, by paying close attention to text, landscape, and biography, he examines the relationship between place and art. His focus is on seven midwestern authors who came of age toward the close of the twentieth century, their lives and their work grounded in distinct places: Dave Etter in small-town upstate Illinois; Norbert Blei in Door County, Wisconsin; William Kloefkorn in southern Kansas and Nebraska; Bill Holm in Minneota, Minnesota; Linda Hasselstrom in Hermosa, South Dakota; Jim Heynen in Sioux County, Iowa; and Jim Harrison in upper Michigan...read more

Critically analyzing the relationship between place and art, a study of the work of seven authors from the Midwest--Dave Etter from Illinois, Wisconsin's Norbert Blei, Jim Harrison of upper Michigan, and Linda Hasselstrom of South Dakota, among others--explores how an author's intimate knowledge of place is reflected in their use of environment, language, geography, and behavior. Simultaneous.

Product Description: 2004 Minnesota Book Award WinnerThe Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture—from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Amato, Joseph

A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays by thirty-five contemporary writers explores the rural experience in America as seen in life on farms, in small towns, and in the wilderness

Product Description: Book by Pichaske, David R. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Includes section of photographs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Pichaske, David R.

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Demonstrates the need for organization and development of style and provides instruction in grammar, punctuation, and the procedures for producing a coherent research paper