"A textbook, Farm places the culture of agriculture (by which they mean the "knowledge, beliefs, laws, customs, ethics, and art of a society") at the forefront. Composed of texts (excerpted literary works, essays, recipes, menus) and art that share...
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"A textbook, Farm places the culture of agriculture (by which they mean the "knowledge, beliefs, laws, customs, ethics, and art of a society") at the forefront. Composed of texts (excerpted literary works, essays, recipes, menus) and art that share with students the legacy of agriculture in the United States and put that into conversation with other important cultural events and meanings. It was designed for courses at land-grant institutions"--
Overview of FARM: a Multimodal Reader -- Section One: Exploring Our Roots -- 1. Our Connections to Agriculture -- 2. Farming in Acient Times -- 3. The European Agriculture Tradition from the Feudal Period to the Eighteenth Century -- Section Two: The American Farm -- 4. The Noble Farmer: Early American Writing -- 5. The Reality of Farming: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century -- 6. Farming in Hard Times -- 7. The Farm Goes to College -- Section Three: Farms and Genres -- 8. Farms and Poetry -- 9. Through a Child's Eyes -- 10. Farms and Folklore -- 11. Farms, Food, and Film --12. Farms and Popular Culture -- 13. Visual Rhetoric of Farms -Section Four: Farms and the New Romanticism -- 14. Return to the Land -- Section Five: Additional Resources -- Appendix A. Major Projects to Consider -- Appendix B. Glossary -- Appendix C. List of Literature with Farm Themes -- Appendix D. Permission and Plagiariasm
