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The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and
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The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters Trade paperback - 1984

by Annette Kolodny

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University of North Carolina Press, August 1984. Trade Paperback . Used Good/yes .
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For the brief space of perhaps two weeks at the end of May 1969, a small plot of deserted ground just south of the University of California campus at Berkeley dominated headlines and news broadcasts across the country.

From the rear cover

'A Fascinating Freudian psychohistory of the 'pastoral impulse' in male American literature from the first documents of exploration to Faulkner and Bellow, and from the Virginia colonies to People's Park....An ambitious book with messages for ecologists and environmentalists as well as feminists.' - Elaine Showalter, Signs

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