Across an Inland Sea : : Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin / / Nicholas Howe.
How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense...
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Howe, Nicholas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Across an Inland Sea : Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin / Nicholas Howe. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2003 1 online resource (224 p.) : 6 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Inland Sea: Buffalo and Beyond -- 2. The View from the River: Paris -- 3. Openlands: Oklahoma -- 4. Pilgrimage Sites: Starting from Chartres -- 5. The Place of History: Berlin -- 6. Writing Home: High Street -- Afterword. Writing in Place -- Acknowledgments -- Notes restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene of twentieth-century history--and a city that helped him make sense of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake ourselves through voyage, and the wonder of the familiar. In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art and literature. Across an Inland Sea evokes the various senses of place that can fill and haunt a life--and ultimately give life its form and meaning. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022) Americans Europe Biography. Anglicists United States Biography. Authorship. College teachers United States Biography. English teachers United States Biography. Medievalists United States Biography. Place (Philosophy) Place (Philosophy). LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Alexandria. Baptists. Black Sea. Califokies. Canadian border. Cat’s Eye. Christ. Cimarron. Courier Express. Fortune. Heart of Darkness. La Flute. London Perceived. Medicine Wheel. Mittel Europa. Okies. Oklahoma. Orkneyinga Saga. Panhandle. Pawnee Bill. Photographic World Atlas. Promenade. River Spree. Sentimental Education. Socialism. Sports Illustrated once. Sulphurous Evening. The Canterbury Tales. The Natural. Times Atlas of the World. Trebizond. Valerianne. Wende. bateaux-mouches. bison. cathedral. church home. domicile fixe. emblazonings. foursquare. historical. human places. imagination. interruption. knowledge. mammal. mythology. pentimento. pilgrimage. unwritten may. wood-frame house. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Gap Years 9783110784237 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227573?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227573 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691227573/original |
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