Télécharger le livre :  Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture
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What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, for humans to form an intimate relation with particular sites or dwelling places on earth? In ancient Rome, the notion of a locale's genius loci signaled recognition of its enchanted, enspirited identity. But in a...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-07-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Making Nature Sacred
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Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-10-14

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Télécharger le livre :  American Madonna
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This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth.This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman --...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-11-27

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