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LAHONTAN: A NOVEL; AND, “A MILLION MILES FROM GOD, THREE FEET
FROM HELL”: AESTHETICS AND THE LITERATURE OF NEVADA
by
Jeffrey Aaron Chisum
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Aaron Chisum
Object Description
| Title | Lahontan: a novel; and "A million miles from God, three feet from hell": aesthestics and the literature of Nevada |
| Author | Chisum, Jeffrey Aaron |
| Author email | chisum@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Literature & Creative Writing |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-03-09 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-04-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Handley, William |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Boyle, T.C. Deverell, William Glotfelty, Cheryll |
| Abstract | Lahontan is a novel that tells the story of a small town in transition. When local teenager Charity Farmer is kidnapped by a mysterious newcomer named S_____, Lahontan County Sheriff Jim Graves finds himself at odds with a number of intersecting forces: the political interests of the Mayor; the increasingly panicked mother of Charity; incoming hotel impresario Henry Swann, who has big plans to open a resort on the edge of town; and the old, long-standing traditions and customs that make the town of Lahontan what it is. As time slips by in the stiflingly hot desert landscape, the Sheriff must move quickly to catch Charity's abductor, before time runs out.; "A million miles from God, three feet from hell": Aesthetics and the Literature of Nevada is a tour through the literature of the place Wilbur Shepperson described as being East of Eden, West of Zion The study examines Nevada's peculiar status as a kind of void, and the effect this has had on literary artists' representation of place, people, and meaning. In particular, the study looks at the dislocating, disorienting effect Nevada has had on a variety of writers working in various genres. In-depth treatment is given to four of the Silver State's finest literary artists: Frank Bergon, Robert Laxalt, Joanne de Longchamps, and Walter Van Tilburg Clark. |
| Keyword | Nevada; literature; fiction; literary criticism |
| Geographic subject (state) | Nevada |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m363 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Chisum, Jeffrey Aaron |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Chisum-20070410 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Chisum-20070410.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | LAHONTAN: A NOVEL; AND, “A MILLION MILES FROM GOD, THREE FEET FROM HELL”: AESTHETICS AND THE LITERATURE OF NEVADA by Jeffrey Aaron Chisum A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Aaron Chisum |
