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portada The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.32 kg.
ISBN13
9781587299773
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature

T. S. McMillin (Author) · University of Iowa Press · Paperback

The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature - McMillin, T. S.

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Synopsis "The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature"

In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form--part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork--The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey's Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of "nature" require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.

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