Western Futures

by Tchudi, Stephen; Lucas, Brad; Nevada Humanities Committee

• ISBN13: 9781890591045
• ISBN10: 1890591041
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Nevada Humanities Committee

Summary

What does the future hold for the American West? In this collection, seventeen humanities scholars from a range of fields and disciplines examine the possibilities as we enter the new millennium. The essayists explore the arbitrariness of "the millennium" as a date for change but acknowledge the millennium as a discussion point for analyzing current problems as well as the rhetoric surrounding such topics as architecture, multiculturalism, futurism, hypermedia, the literary canon, English language, urban and suburban growth, public health, and environmental themes.

Table of Contents

Our Days in the Olduvai Gorge	3	(4)
Bill Cowee
MILLENNIAL MADNESS
The Last Millennium: Are the Terrors of the Year 1000 True?	7	(10)
Frank Hartigan
Montana Apocalypse	17	(14)
Ken Egan, Jr.
``... And the People Went to the Caves to be Healed,''	31	(24)
Barbra Erickson
RHETORIC AND CHANGE
Let Them Eat Yellowcake	55	(18)
Sue Rabbitt Roff
Scientific Writing as Persuasion	73	(30)
Susanne Bentley
Growth and Consequences: The Future of the West	103	(22)
Keith Sargent
The Future of Work and the Worker: Peter Drucker's Search for Community	125	(18)
Daryl Wennemann
LITERATURE AND LANDSCAPE
A Cowboy Looks at Reality	143	(16)
Andrew Spencer
Considering the Canon	159	(26)
Paul Lindholt
The Quest for Official English	185	(20)
Steve Hecox
TRIANGULATIONS
Barrio Devo: Lessons in the Ethical Function of Architecture	205	(12)
Thomas Naerper
Landscaping the Final Frontier	217	(28)
Jane Detweiler
Re-reading the Desert in Hypertranslation	245	(16)
Beverly Curran
Riding the Curves Into the Twenty-First Century	261
H. Lee Barnes