Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. When Is the Prairie? 3
5. The Tantalizing Possibility of Living on the Plains 25
6. The Melting of Time in Thomas Wharton's Icefields 43
7. Autogeology 63
8. Coyote as Culprit 87
9. Robert Kroetsch, Marshall Mcluhan, and Canada's Prairie Postmodernism 101
10. The "Precarious Perch" of the "Decent Woman" 141
11. Documents in the Postmodern Long Prairie Poem 175
12. Reconstructions of Literary Settings in North America's Prairie Regions 213
13. A Timeless Imagined Prairie 235
14. Time's Grip Along the Athabasca, 1920s and 1930s 259
15. Bibliography 289
16. Contributors 309