Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part 1. Tradition; Chapter 1. As from a Height of Time; Chapter 2. Ancient Seers; Chapter 3. Epic Landscape; Part 2: Troubled Planet; Chapter 4. Tremendous Mood of War; Chapter 5. Breadlines and Bursting Granaries; Chapter 6. Social Turmoil; Part 3. Trends in Contemporary Literature; Chapter 7. Genuine Criticism; Chapter 8. Vandals in the Temple; Chapter 9. Only Symptomatic; Part 4: Of Making Many Books; Chapter 10. The Glow of the Moment; Chapter 11. Impeccably Unremarkable; Part 5. This Mysterious Universe; Chapter 12. Et Tu, Scientia?; Chapter 13. Exploring the Unknown; Chapter 14. The Flesh and the Spirit; Part 6: Poetic Values; Chapter 15. Hill of Vision; Chapter 16. What Is Literature Good For?; Notes; Sources; Index

About the Author

Lori Holm Utecht is a former executive director of the John G. Neihardt Historic Site. She is the coeditor of Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family (Nebraska 2000).

Reviews

“Neihardt’s sonorities convey his seriousness of purpose, his belief in literature’s ability to disclose ties between past and present, and his faith in man’s perfectability--all of which render the Great Plains mindset at its most sturdy and vital.”—Peter Wolfe, Nebraska History