Degraded Heartland Geoff Whitty expert instruction

expert instruction

Other key features include: A clear introduction to discourse analytic traditions Tips on how to produce effective field notes Guidance on how to manage interview and conversational data Advice on writing linguistic ethnographies for different audiences Annotated suggestions for further reading Full glossary This book is a master class in understanding linguistic ethnography

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Degraded Heartland Geoff Whitty expert instructionHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America long romanticized in pastoral literature becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while