The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters / Edition 1

by Annette Kolodny

Overview

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807841181
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	08/27/1984
Edition description:	1
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)

About the Author

Annette Kolodny is former Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. She currently teaches courses on ecocriticism and the American frontiers at the University of Arizona.