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Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State (Western Literature Series)
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Paperback. Contains over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. This book includes sections on cowboy poetry, wild Nevada, travel writing, and nuclear Nevada; and narratives about rural life and life in Las Vegas and Reno. Editor(s): Glotfelty, Cheryll. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 896 pages, 35 b/w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1243.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874177596
SKU
V9780874177596
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Ref
99-15
About
Cheryll Glotfelty is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches courses in Nevada literature and has won many teaching awards. She coedited The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology and has published essays in scholarly journals, edited collections, and reference works.
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