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Textual Authenticity and the Contemporary West: John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains
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A critical study of John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains in the context of recent debates about the status of regional studies in a postmodern culture, this essay asks what it means to be authentically Western in a late-twentieth-century culture comprising simulacra.
Title: Textual Authenticity and the Contemporary West: John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains
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A critical study of John McPhee’s Rising from the Plains in the context of recent debates about the status of regional studies in a postmodern culture, this essay asks what it means to be authentically Western in a late-twentieth-century culture comprising simulacra.
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Archeological investigations at Lake Alan Henry, in Garza and Kent Counties, Texas, between 1987 and 1993 generated much archeological data relevant to interpreting late Holocene h...
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