American road literature, editor, Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan University

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American road literature, editor, Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan University

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editor, Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan University

Instantiates

• American road literature

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts, Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing | Grey House Publishing, 2013

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

On American road literature / Ronald Primeau -- Critical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre / Ann Brigham -- Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday / Marilyn Judith Atlas -- Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature / Barry Alford -- American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home / John Rohrkemper -- Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road / Dominic Ording -- Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" / Ann Brigham -- Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven -- Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers / Richmond Adams -- Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions / Deborah Paes de Barros -- The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic / David Bain -- Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" / Christian Knoeller -- "The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate / Caroline Maun -- Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel / Maureen N. Eke -- "Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris / Marybeth Pringle -- Shoreline sansaras / Arvid F. Sponberg -- Key to the highway: the road to the blues / Phil Patton -- Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest / Steven K. Bailey -- A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday / Matthew Low

Control code

17611046

Extent

x, 347 p.

Isbn

9781429838191

Lccn

2012049038

Record ID

.b13795247