LEADER 02967nam 2200589 450 001 9910788496503321 005 20230803200315.0 010 $a1-61277-683-3 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060857 035 $a(EBL)3120341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001084739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11591480 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11049147 035 $a(PQKB)10377786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3120341 035 $a(OCoLC)867772623 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3120341 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10819645 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL561782 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060857 100 $a20131226d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSacred land $eSherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature /$fMark Buechsel 210 1$aKent, Ohio :$cThe Kent State University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aBased on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006. 311 $a1-60635-156-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$zMiddle West$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aRegionalism in literature 607 $aMiddle West$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aRegionalism in literature. 676 $a813/.52 700 $aBuechsel$b Mark$f1976-$01561351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788496503321 996 $aSacred land$93828006 997 $aUNINA