The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters

by Annette Kolodny

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807841188

ISBN13:9780807841181

Release Date:August 1984

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.73 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Americas Classics Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Social Science

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