02967nam 2200589 450 991081076000332120230803200315.01-61277-683-3(CKB)3170000000060857(EBL)3120341(SSID)ssj0001084739(PQKBManifestationID)11591480(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084739(PQKBWorkID)11049147(PQKB)10377786(MiAaPQ)EBC3120341(OCoLC)867772623(MdBmJHUP)muse24973(Au-PeEL)EBL3120341(CaPaEBR)ebr10819645(CaONFJC)MIL561782(EXLCZ)99317000000006085720131226d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSacred land Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature /Mark BuechselKent, Ohio :The Kent State University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (268 p.)Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006.1-60635-156-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.American literatureMiddle WestHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesRegionalism in literatureMiddle WestIntellectual lifeAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Regionalism in literature.813/.52Buechsel Mark1976-1623569MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810760003321Sacred land3958022UNINA