LEADER 02747nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910959555303321 005 20240516113138.0 010 $a9781587299780 010 $a158729978X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081347 035 $a(EBL)843346 035 $a(OCoLC)711003841 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282432 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10427992 035 $a(PQKB)10582637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843346 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3028 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843346 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456430 035 $a(Perlego)2958338 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081347 100 $a20100811d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe meaning of rivers $eflow and reflection in American literature /$fby T.S. McMillin ; foreword by Wayne Franklin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican land and life series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781587299773 311 08$a1587299771 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : What do rivers mean? -- Overlooking the river -- By the river -- Up the river -- Down the river -- Crossing the river -- Up and down the river. 330 $aIn the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about 410 0$aAmerican land and life series. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRivers in literature 606 $aPhilosophy of nature in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRivers in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature in literature. 676 $a810.9/36 676 $a810.936 700 $aMcMillin$b T. S$g(Tracy Scott)$01813846 701 $aFranklin$b Wayne$01813490 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959555303321 996 $aThe meaning of rivers$94367326 997 $aUNINA