Spirits of place in American literary culture / John Gatta
- Author
- Gatta, John, 1946-
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Houses of the Spirit / Gaines -- Transcendental and Other Soul Shelters in Antebellum America -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Home "Somewhere Else" -- Harriet's Houses -- When Houses Are No Longer Homes -- 2.Spirits of Pilgrimage, Peregrination, and Re-Placement / Haskell -- Moving On and Beginning Again -- From Pilgrim's Way to the Open Road -- Localism versus Globalism -- Two Versions of Globally Engaged Localism -- 3.The Place of Imagination / Vea -- The Earthiness of Imagination and a Phenomenology of Place -- The Contemplative Reach of Imagination: Poetry of Walt Whitman and Marilyn Nelson -- Numinous Layerings of Place as Palimpsest -- 4.Sacred Sites and Geographies / Kazin -- Orientations of the Genius Loci -- Hallowed Battlegrounds and Burial Grounds -- The Spiritual Fecundity of Wastelands -- City Scenes of Grace -- 5.Contemplating Site-Based Education and Place-Making -- Current Concepts and Practices of Site-Based Education -- The Rationale for Contemplative Learning in Place -- A Case Study in Localized Learning.
- Summary
- What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete sites or dwelling places on earth? This text 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190646578 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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