| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction: Wilderness Semantics Defined; Part One: The Death of "Wilderness"; Chapter One. Lamenting the Last Good Country: The Hemingway Script of the American Wilderness; Chapter Two. The Hunting Stories in Go Down Moses: William Faulkner's Cautionary Tale of "That Doomed Wilderness"; Part Two: Recreating "Wilderness"; Chapter Three. The Pattern That Is Not Supposed to Count: Creating "Wilderness" in My Antonia; Chapter Four. The Boundaries of Wilderness: Gardens, Monuments, Artifacts, and National Parks in The Professor's House |
| Summary |
Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, this book probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner and Cather, it states that the idea of wilderness is not something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203959770 |
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0203959779 |
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