Sacred land : Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature / / Mark Buechsel

• Autore: Buechsel Mark <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Middle West - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - United States; Regionalism in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Middle West Intellectual life
• Note generali: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sacred land
• ISBN: 1-61277-683-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810760003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II