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Barillas, William David. "Place and Landscape in Midwestern American Literature," Department of English, Michigan State University, May 1994.
Certain twentieth century Midwestern authors, including Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Jim Harrison, Judith Minty, and Dan Gerber, are part of a continuing American neo-Romantic tradition of literary place and landscape. These writers express the pastoral ideal of balance between society and nature, sophistication and the bucolic. Their historical, ecological, and spiritual understandings of nature cause them to censure utilitarian and materialist attitudes threatening the region’s natural beauty and cultural heritage. This dissertation uses approaches from humanistic geography, environmental history, and myth-symbol analysis.
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