The Spell Cast by Remains : The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415976473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 174 str.

Patricia A. Ross

Opis

Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, this book probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner and Cather, it states that the idea of wilderness is not something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Death of “Wilderness”; Chapter 1 Lamenting the Last Good Country: The Hemingway Script of the American Wilderness; Chapter 2 The Hunting Stories in Go Down Moses: William Faulkner’s Cautionary Tale of “That Doomed Wilderness”; Part 2 Recreating “Wilderness”; Introduction 1 Introduction; Chapter 3 The Pattern That Is Not Supposed to Count: Creating “Wilderness” in My Ántonia; Chapter 4 The Boundaries of Wilderness: Gardens, Monuments, Artifacts, and National Parks in The Professor’s House; Chapter 5 French Onion Soup and Other Mythmaking Lessons in Death Comes for the Archbishop;

O autorze

Patricia A. Ross