The Concern Of Women For Nature Mary Austin S Appreciation Of The Desert In The Land Of Little Rain
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The Concern Of Women For Nature Mary Austin S Appreciation Of The Desert In The Land Of Little Rain
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Author : Ann-Kathrin Stahl
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-11-29
The Concern Of Women For Nature Mary Austin S Appreciation Of The Desert In The Land Of Little Rain written by Ann-Kathrin Stahl and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: “In response to the industrial revolution of the late 18th century” (Scheese 6) a new field of literary studies has been established. Derived from former pastoralism, authors now engage into what is called ‘nature writing’. Addressing the concerns of life in the country, attention is directed to the different forms of nature as well. One of these nature writers can be found in Mary Hunter Austin, an American writer who expresses her “affinity for nature, and more particularly the desert” (Scheese 76) by describing the landscape of the Mojave Desert in Southern California the way she perceived it during her walks through it. Austin successfully creates a whole new picture of it in her work "The Land of Little Rain". Through her celebration of a land often perceived as sterile and uninteresting, Austin helped create in America what had not existed before the turn of the century: a desert aesthetic. What Scheese here calls “a desert aesthetic” (Scheese 75) describes the establishment of a literary discourse exclusively centered around literature about the desert. Desert literature itself offers numerous possibilities for writers at the beginning of the twentieth century, especially for female writers as it “inspired cultural fantasies and enabled real and imagined experiences of solitude, comntemplative repose, divine revelation” (Gersdorf 16). As a consequence, the stories of female writers can be understood as symbolic since the action is moved from a former domestic space to the public sphere in form of the desert. This also conforms to the character of the concept of ‘New Womanhood’ which signifies a newly gained freedom for women at the end of the nineteenth century as their determination of staying within the domestic sphere was finally abandoned. To prove this statement, the following essay initially gives a short overview of the literary study of nature writing and its more recent descendant, namely ‘desert literature’. Moreover, the second part of the essay will show how Mary Hunter Austin succeeds in transferring her appreciation of the desert into her short story collection "The Land of Little Rain", where she attributes utopian qualities to the theme of the desert. The third part will finally analyze Austin’s novel with regard to her gender, her concern for nature and the developments concerning the ecofeminist movement at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Poetics And Politics Of The Desert
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Author : Catrin Gersdorf
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Poetics And Politics Of The Desert written by Catrin Gersdorf and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
The Land Of Little Rain
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Author : Mary Austin
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-29
The Land Of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-29 with Travel categories.
"The Land of Little Rain" is a collection of short stories and essays detailing the landscape and people of the American Southwest written by the prominent writer Mary Hunter Austin. The book presents a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants, both human and otherwise, and the arid landscape of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert of California. It sends a strong message of environmental conservation and a philosophy of cultural and sociopolitical regionalism.
The Land Of Little Rain
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Author : Mary Austin
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2002-05
The Land Of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05 with Travel categories.
In this collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares "such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another." Her writings capture the landscape - from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas - as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians.
The Land Of Little Rain
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Author : Mary Hunter Austin
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-23
The Land Of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-23 with Fiction categories.
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World Authors 1900 1950
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
World Authors 1900 1950 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literature, Modern categories.
Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.
The Land Of Little Rain
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Author : Mary Hunter Austin
language : en
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 1940-06-01
The Land Of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and has been published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940-06-01 with categories.
In this collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares "such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another." Her writings capture the landscape - from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas - as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians.
Journal Of American Culture
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Journal Of American Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Comparative civilization categories.
The Land Of Little Rain Warbler Classics
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Author : Mary Austin
language : en
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Land Of Little Rain Warbler Classics written by Mary Austin and has been published by Warbler Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with categories.
Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection of fourteen vignettes about the land and people of the region that today includes Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. Part nature essay, personal essay, folk legend, and local history of the California Sierras, this enduring American classic resists classification. Her lyrical observations are infused with a deep understanding of the flora and fauna of the area and an appreciation of the people she encountered and befriended there-Shoshones and Paiutes, Mexican and Chinese immigrants, shepherds, stagecoach drivers, and miners among them. Austin's writings have been compared to the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Aldo Leopard, but her poetic sensibility is purely original, winsome, and entirely her own. This Warbler Classics paperback includes the illustrations that appeared in the original edition and a detailed biographical note.
High Roller
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
High Roller written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Libraries categories.