Glebae adscripti. Troping place, region, and nature in America
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski.
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Kniha
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English
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Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 23
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[Zawiera:] Introduction. * Part One: Modalities of Dwelling: - Till Death Do Us Part. - Expanses of Self-Dramatization: William Bartram, Henry David Thoreau and William Byrd. - The States of Vacuity: Cormac McCarthy. - Hunting: Buffalo Bill. - Ike McCaslin. - The Lewis and Clark Type Versus the Burroughs/Roosevelt Type. - The Violent South: John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper. - The Eccetrics. - An Achitophelian Coda: Sutpen, Poles and Creole Dogs. * Part Two: Gold Mountain and Cold Mountain: - West Coast Orientalism. - Enabling Myths. - Confucius and Asian Textiles in the South. - "Karuna" and "Prajna" in the Northwest. - The Okefenokee Samurai, Zen in the Blue Ridge Mountains Steinbeck's and Kingston's China Men. - Guterson, Kogawa and the 100-Mile Strip. - Three Inventions of the East: Heidegger, Barthes, Kristeva. * Part Three: The Dynamo: The Fictions of New York: - Pedestrian Enunciations: Paul Auster and Michel de Certeau. - Bracketing the Rise: E.A. Poe and H. Adams. - Atlantis on the East Side. - Around Washington Square. - Richard Ford's Megapolitan Moods. - Streetwise in Manhattan. - The New York Minute: Concentration and Diffusion. - In Conclusion. * Concluding Remarks: Revulsion and Repose. Bibliography.