Coming into McPhee country : John McPhee and the art of literary nonfiction /
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| Imprint: | Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | vii, 326 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4839818 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I.. The Evolving Writer
- Introducing John McPhee
- "The Size and Shape of the Canvas": An Interview with John McPhee
- Pieces and the Frame: McPhee and Portraiture
- "Essence of Writer": John McPhee's Early Training
- II.. McPhee and the Natural World
- John McPhee and the Question of Environmental Advocacy
- In the American Grain: John McPhee's Coming into the Country
- Giving Good Reasons: Environmental Appeals in the Nonfiction of John McPhee
- "In a Lifetime of Descending Rivers": The Art and Argument of John McPhee's "River Essays"
- A Plate Tectonics of Language: Geology as a Vernacular Science
- John McPhee's Annals of the Former World: Geology, Culture, and a Fountain of Metaphor
- III.. The Writerly Challenges of McPhee
- Traveling in Social Spaces: John McPhee's Dichotomies in Levels of the Game and "In Search of Marvin Gardens"
- John McPhee Balances the Act
- "Academic Air": Teaching The Control of Nature
- "Pentimento in the Hide": Cracking Code with John McPhee
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
