| Description |
viii, 206 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in literature and science
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Studies in literature and science.
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| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis, Indiana University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index. |
| Contents |
The birth of the hydraulic conflict -- River wars : Los Angeles, the Owens Valley, and Mary Austin's The ford -- Turning wine into water : water's crucial absence in The grapes of wrath -- Waging water : hydrology versus mythology in The monkey wrench gang -- The environmental system : animal dreams and the rhetoric of environment -- Imaging sustainability. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Southwest, New -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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New Southwest. |
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southwest, New.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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Authors, American. |
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Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New.
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Water-supply -- Political aspects. |
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Water-supply. |
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Politics and literature -- Southwest, New.
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Politics and literature. |
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Southwest, New -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Southwest, New -- In literature.
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Water-supply -- Southwest, New.
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Water -- Southwest, New.
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Water. |
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Deserts in literature.
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Deserts in literature. |
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Water in literature.
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Water in literature. |
| ISBN |
0472067567 paperback alkaline paper |
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0472097563 alkaline paper |
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