Imagination in place : essays
Publication Information
Berkeley : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
Physical Description
viii, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Imagination in place was first published in Place in American Fiction, edited by H.L. Weatherby and George Core.
Contents
- Imagination in place
- American imagination and the Civil War
- The momentum of clarity
- In memory: Wallace Stegner, 1909-1993
- Speech after long silence
- My friend Hayden
- In memory: James Still
- A master language
- My conversation with Gurney Norman
- Sweetness preserved
- Some interim thoughts about Gary Snyder's: Mountains and Rivers Without End
- In memory: James Baker Hall
- Against the Nihil of the Age
- The uses of adversity
- God, science, and imagination
- Acknowledgments
- Works cited.
Subjects
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Local color in literature.
- Regionalism in literature.
- Setting (Literature)
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
- American literature > History and criticism.
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008
- Haines, John Meade, 1924-
- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
- Still, James, 1906-2001
- Norman, Gurney, 1937-
- Snyder, Gary, 1930-
- Hall, James Baker, 1935-2009