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Buechsel Mark <1976-> |
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Sacred land : Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature / / Mark Buechsel |
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Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Middle West - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
Regionalism in literature |
Middle West Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- An American Venus and virgin: the sacramental dynamic of the Midwestern land -- Protestantism, literalism, and the sacramental body of the Midwest -- Winesburg under the sway of "New Englanders' gods": Puritanism, industrialism, materialism, and the Midwestern fall -- "The fields fell into the forms of women": sexual and gendered associations of the land in Horses and men -- Laughing at "fake talk": the guttural silence of the Midwestern land in Dark laughter -- Fleshly but beyond just flesh": the salvific sacramental meaning of the land in Poor white and Beyond desire -- "I'm a good Catholic, but I could get along with caring for trees": nature and sacramental community in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia -- "A story of the West, after all": the sacramental and Midwestern pastoral subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- The return to "hard, natural things": from pastoral delusion to rock-bottom reality in Ruth Suckow's The folks -- Sacramentalism in a postmodern farm novel: Ginny Smith's spiritual journey in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres -- Epilogue. |
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