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Author Sinor, Jennifer, 1969-

Title The extraordinary work of ordinary writing : Annie Ray's diary / Jennifer Sinor.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
Contents Prologue: Annie's Gaze -- A Note on the Editing -- Introduction: Stories That Matter, the Matter of Stories -- A Story of the Diary -- Intertext: The Year 1881 -- Time, Days, and Page -- Intertext: The Year 1882 -- Putting Things to Right Generally -- Making Ordinary Writing.
Summary Krutch's trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environment of Arizona's Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the "lower" forms of life: "Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has 'become adapted' to desert conditions. Let us say rather that they have all shown courage and ingenuity in making the best of the world as they found it.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Ray, Annie, active 19th century -- Diaries.
Ray, Annie, active 19th century.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Subject Sinor, Jennifer, 1969- -- Family.
Families.
Ray, Annie, active 19th century -- Diaries -- Family.
Sinor, Jennifer, 1969-
Sinor, Jennifer, 1969- -- Diaries -- Family.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Diaries -- History and criticism.
Diaries.
Women pioneers -- United States -- Diaries.
Women pioneers.
United States.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Diaries.
Other Form: Print version: Sinor, Jennifer, 1969- Extraordinary work of ordinary writing. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002 0877458324 0877458332 (DLC) 2002021138 (OCoLC)49415519
ISBN 1587294303 (electronic book)
9781587294303 (electronic book)
9780877458333
0877458332
0877458324 (alkaline paper)
9780877458326 (alkaline paper)