Patricia Ross

The Spell Cast by Remains

The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea, and not a real entity or something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction. Discovering how literature can help us to understand how we can exert causative control of the myths we create about ourselves, this book is an important contribution to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780415802901
• ISBN-10: 0415802903
• Artikelnr.: 26488588

Autorenporträt

Patricia A. Ross

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 The Death of "Wilderness"
Chapter 1 Lamenting the Last Good Country: The Hemingway Script of the American Wilderness
Chapter 2 The Hunting Stories in Go Down Moses: William Faulkner's Cautionary Tale of "That Doomed Wilderness"
Part 2 Recreating "Wilderness"
Introduction 1 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Pattern That Is Not Supposed to Count: Creating "Wilderness" in My Ántonia
Chapter 4 The Boundaries of Wilderness: Gardens, Monuments, Artifacts, and National Parks in The Professor's House
Chapter 5 French Onion Soup and Other Mythmaking Lessons in Death Comes for the Archbishop