The Lay of the Land : Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters Hardback
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/01/1975
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- ISBN:9780807812419
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/01/1975
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- ISBN:9780807812419