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The meaning of rivers : flow and reflection in American literature / / by T.S. McMillin ; foreword by Wayne Franklin



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Autore: McMillin T. S (Tracy Scott) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The meaning of rivers : flow and reflection in American literature / / by T.S. McMillin ; foreword by Wayne Franklin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/36
810.936
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
Rivers in literature
Philosophy of nature in literature
Altri autori: FranklinWayne  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The meaning of rivers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-978-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823881703321
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Serie: American land and life series.