To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land.
To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the fro...
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.
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'la...
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's "Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century" is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator at a major public university. In chapters that range from the changing structure of the American family and its impact on both curriculum and university benefits policies to recommendations for overhauling the culture of decision making on campus, this former Dean of the College of Humanities at the...
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's "Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century" is drawn from the ...
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's "Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century" is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator at a major public university. In chapters that range from the changing structure of the American family and its impact on both curriculum and university benefits policies to recommendations for overhauling the culture of decision making on campus, this former Dean of the College of Humanities at the...
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's "Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century" is drawn from the ...