Spirits Of Place In American Literary Culture

Author : John Gatta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190646578
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture written by John Gatta and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete sites or dwelling places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Blending theological and cultural analysis, it focuses on the multi-layered witness enshrined in American literary texts and demonstrates that hallowed geography and the sacramentality of place have mattered throughout our history.

Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190646543
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture written by John Gatta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Centered on analyzing US literatures, it reflects a theological phenomenology cognizant of the spiritualities grounded in First Nature as well as settled spaces" --

Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190646551
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture written by John Gatta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 digitalized America of unprecedented mobility can place still matter as seed ground for the soul? Such questions have been broached by ecocritics concerned with how place-inflected experience figures in literature, and by theologians concerned with ecotheology and ecospirituality. This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective, informed by a theological phenomenology of place that takes fuller account of the spiritualities associated with built environments than ecocriticism typically does. Spirits of Place blends theological and cultural analysis with personal reflection, while focusing on the multi-layered witness presented by American literature. John Gatta's interpretive readings range across texts by an array of canonical as well as lesser-known writers. Along the way, it addresses such themes as the religious implications of localism vs. globalism; the diverse spiritualities associated with long-term residency, resettlement, and pilgrimage; why some sites seem more hallowed than others; and how the creative spirit of Imagination figures in place-identified perceptions of the numinous. Whether in Christian or other religious terms, no discrete place matters absolutely. Yet this study demonstrates how and why hallowed geography and the sacramentality of place have mattered throughout our cultural history.

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Frederick Turner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Frederick Turner examines the lives and careers of nine American authors, the locales they made famous, and the ways in which landscape played a role in the creation of their finest works. Spirit of Place is both a testament to the creative genius of nine of America's most important writers and an insightful investigation of the vital role of the physical landscape in the cultural development of the United States.

Author : Kathleen Morgan Drowne
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209971
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Defiance written by Kathleen Morgan Drowne and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Michael Erben
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807835579
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmony of the Spirits written by Patrick Michael Erben and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

Author : Bliss Perry
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019450697
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Spirit in Literature written by Bliss Perry and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a series of essays on the major American literary figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written by one of America's leading literary critics of that period, it provides insightful analyses of the works of such luminaries as Emerson, Poe, Whitman, and Twain, as well as lesser-known figures. Literature lovers or students of American culture will find this book a joy to read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Josef Sorett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199844933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit in the Dark written by Josef Sorett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.

Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Religious Experience written by Matthew J. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry. Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience.

Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793624062
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad written by John Gatta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads—unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this “Green Jeremiad” tradition not only warn of material threats to life’s flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.