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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587294303
  • 9781587294303
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Extraordinary work of ordinary writing.DDC classification:
  • 808/.06692 22
LOC classification:
  • CT25 .S554 2002eb
Online resources:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.

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.

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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