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

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

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807841188
ISBN13: 9780807841181
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 27 1984
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.79 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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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