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Sacred Land : Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern Modernism, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature /
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and motivating cultural experience: the encompassing transformation of rural and urban Midwestern life fro...
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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
2013.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.