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The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
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by Annette Kolodny
Sales Rank: 330321
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 198 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press August 27, 1984
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807841188
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807841181
Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 11.4 ounces
Product 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.
About The Author
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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