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245 10 a| Sacred landh| [electronic resource] :b| Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature /c| Mark Buechsel.;

260 a| Kent, Ohio :b| The Kent State University Press,c| [2014];

300 a| xii, 371 pages ;c| 24 cm;

500 a| Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-366) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- An American Venus and virgin: the sacramental dynamic of the Midwestern land -- Protestantism, literalism, and the sacramental body of the Midwest -- Winesburg under the sway of "New Englanders' gods": Puritanism, industrialism, materialism, and the Midwestern fall -- "The fields fell into the forms of women": sexual and gendered associations of the land in Horses and men -- Laughing at "fake talk": the guttural silence of the Midwestern land in Dark laughter -- Fleshly but beyond just flesh": the salvific sacramental meaning of the land in Poor white and Beyond desire -- "I'm a good Catholic, but I could get along with caring for trees": nature and sacramental community in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia -- "A story of the West, after all": the sacramental and Midwestern pastoral subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- The return to "hard, natural things": from pastoral delusion to rock-bottom reality in Ruth Suckow's The folks -- Sacramentalism in a postmodern farm novel: Ginny Smith's spiritual journey in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres -- Epilogue.;

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Sacred land Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature / Mark Buechsel.

Author/creator	Buechsel, Mark, 1976-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2014]
Description	xii, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941--Criticism and interpretation. American literature--Middle West. --History and criticism. Modernism (Literature)--United States. Regionalism in literature. Protestantism in literature. Landscapes in literature. Nature in literature. Middle West--Intellectual life. Middle West--In literature.

Contents	Introduction -- An American Venus and virgin: the sacramental dynamic of the Midwestern land -- Protestantism, literalism, and the sacramental body of the Midwest -- Winesburg under the sway of "New Englanders' gods": Puritanism, industrialism, materialism, and the Midwestern fall -- "The fields fell into the forms of women": sexual and gendered associations of the land in Horses and men -- Laughing at "fake talk": the guttural silence of the Midwestern land in Dark laughter -- Fleshly but beyond just flesh": the salvific sacramental meaning of the land in Poor white and Beyond desire -- "I'm a good Catholic, but I could get along with caring for trees": nature and sacramental community in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia -- "A story of the West, after all": the sacramental and Midwestern pastoral subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- The return to "hard, natural things": from pastoral delusion to rock-bottom reality in Ruth Suckow's The folks -- Sacramentalism in a postmodern farm novel: Ginny Smith's spiritual journey in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres -- Epilogue.
General note	Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Baylor University, 2006.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-366) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012043500
ISBN	9781606351567 (hardcover)

Sacred land Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern modernism, and the sacramental vision of nature / Mark Buechsel.

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