Coming into McPhee Country

by Weltzien, O. Alan

• ISBN13: 9780874807462
• ISBN10: 0874807468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-23
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(18)
The Evolving Writer
Introducing John McPhee	19	(35)
William Howarth
``The Size and Shape of the Canvas'': An Interview with John McPhee	54	(25)
Jared Haynes
Pieces and the Frame: McPhee and Portraiture	79	(26)
Barbara Lounsberry
``Essence of Writer'': John McPhee's Early Training	105	(18)
Norman Sims
McPhee and the Natural World
John McPhee and the Question of Environmental Advocacy	123	(22)
O. Alan Weltzien
In the American Grain: John McPhee's Coming into the Country	145	(17)
Michael Pearson
Giving Good Reasons: Environmental Appeals in the Nonfiction of John McPhee	162	(23)
Brian Turner
``In a Lifetime of Descending Rivers'': The Art and Argument of John McPhee's ``River Essays''	185	(24)
Theodore C. Humphrey
A Plate Tectonics of Language: Geology as a Vernacular Science	209	(17)
Rick Van Noy
John McPhee's Annals of the Former World: Geology, Culture, and a Fountain of Metaphor	226	(19)
Barbara Stevens
The Writerly Challenges of McPhee
Traveling in Social Spaces: John McPhee's Dichotomies in Levels of the Game and ``In Search of Marvin Gardens''	245	(17)
Meta G. Carstarphen
John McPhee Balances the Act	262	(20)
Kathy Smith
``Academic Air'': Teaching The Control of Nature	282	(19)
Daniel J. Philippon
``Pentimento in the Hide'': Cracking Code with John McPhee	301	(20)
Susan Naramore Maher
Notes on Contributors	321	(4)
Index	325