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

ISBN-13: 9780807841181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 200 str.

Annette Kolodny

Opis

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.