02659nam 2200625 a 450 991082388170332120240516113138.01-58729-978-X(CKB)2670000000081347(EBL)843346(OCoLC)711003841(SSID)ssj0000471233(PQKBManifestationID)11282432(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471233(PQKBWorkID)10427992(PQKB)10582637(MiAaPQ)EBC843346(MdBmJHUP)muse3028(Au-PeEL)EBL843346(CaPaEBR)ebr10456430(EXLCZ)99267000000008134720100811d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe meaning of rivers flow and reflection in American literature /by T.S. McMillin ; foreword by Wayne Franklin1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20111 online resource (241 p.)American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-977-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : What do rivers mean? -- Overlooking the river -- By the river -- Up the river -- Down the river -- Crossing the river -- Up and down the river.In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about American land and life series.American literatureHistory and criticismRivers in literaturePhilosophy of nature in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Rivers in literature.Philosophy of nature in literature.810.9/36810.936McMillin T. S(Tracy Scott)1672083Franklin Wayne1620615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823881703321The meaning of rivers4035117UNINA