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The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Kolodny, Annette (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807841188     ISBN-13: 9780807841181
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $35.63  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1984
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Annotation: 'A Fascinating Freudian psychohistory of the 'pastoral impulse' in male American literature from the first documents of exploration to Faulkner and Bellow, and from the Virginia colonies to People's Park....An ambitious book with messages for ecologists and environmentalists as well as feminists.' - Elaine Showalter, Signs
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
Dewey: 810.936
LCCN: 74023950
Lexile Measure: 1660
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.79" W x 9.02" L (0.71 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.


Contributor Bio(s): Kolodny, Annette: - Annette Kolodny is former Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. She currently teaches courses on ecocriticism and the American frontiers at the University of Arizona.
 
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