Author

Publication

2019 - Louisiana State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780807170786
  • ISBN-10080717078X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018050916
  • OCLC Control Number1056478369
  • Better World Books9780807170786
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Classifications

  • LCCPS273.O44 2019
  • LCCPS273 .O44 2019

Description

"The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the "heartland," a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture. Alternatively, the Midwest can represent "flyover country," part of an expansive, undifferentiated mass between the coasts. In Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature, Andy Oler challenges both views by pairing fiction and poetry from the region with cultural and material texts that illustrate the processes by which regional modernism both opposes and absorbs prevailing models of twentieth-century manhood"--

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