Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters by Annette Kolodny

Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters

Annette Kolodny

200 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

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An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American...

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