The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California - Couverture souple

Wyatt, David

 
9780521397513: The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521397510 ISBN 13 : 9780521397513
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of the West, the energies, which, in other regions, had been concentrated in covenant theology or the rationalisation of Southern history, are displaced into an encounter with landscape. Tracing the early literature of California to Dana, Leonard, and Fremont, Wyatt studies their development of self-consciousness and awareness of the physical beauty in nature. He then examines in separate chapters the writings of Muir, King, and Mary Austin during a time of domestication and exploitation of the land when landscape became, of necessity, an idea or lost ideal. Of twentieth-century writers, the book focuses on Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, who seemed to struggle against the land, charting the advance of human hopes against the vast open spaces of the West. Professor Wyatt concludes with the writer's return to landscape as source and end in the poetry of Jeffers and Snyder.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of the West, the energies, which, in other regions, had been concentrated in covenant theology or the rationalisation of Southern history, are displaced into an encounter with landscape. Tracing the early literature of California to Dana, Leonard, and Fremont, Wyatt studies their development of self-consciousness and awareness of the physical beauty in nature. He then examines in separate chapters the writings of Muir, King, and Mary Austin during a time of domestication and exploitation of the land when landscape became, of necessity, an idea or lost ideal. Of twentieth-century writers, the book focuses on Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, who seemed to struggle against the land, charting the advance of human hopes against the vast open spaces of the West. Professor Wyatt concludes with the writer's return to landscape as source and end in the poetry of Jeffers and Snyder.

Revue de presse

'This is an elegant, graceful, and moving book, a kind of hymn to California ...'. American Literature

'... an important contribution to the study of non-canonical American literature.' The Modern Language Review

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521397510
ISBN 13 
9780521397513
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521323994: The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521323991 ISBN 13 :  9780521323994
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1986
Couverture rigide