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

ISBN-13: 9780415802901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Ross Patricia

Opis

Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea, and not a real entity or something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction. Discovering how literature can help us to understand how we can exert causative control of the myths we create about ourselves, this book is an important contribution to the field.

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