Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
With learning that embraces not only the history but the literary evolution, the dreams, and the profound psychic cravings of Western development, with insight, elegance, and uncanny precision that his readers have come to take for granted, Turner's work addresses the underlying delusion, the tragedy, the wreckage of our age, and how it came to pass. We are all in his debt. --W. S. Merwin It is an astonishing performance and it works--not merely because Turner writes with a grace and perception that place him with a handful of historians who can be called great literary stylists, but because he has an idea going here, a significant one...[A]…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8135-1909-8
- EAN: 9780813519098
- Produktnummer: 1503808
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.2 cm 515 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 515
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Frederick Turner is the author of six books, including a biography of John Muir, a personal investigation of the roots of New Orleans jazz, and a study of the making of the American literary landscape. His essays have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, American Heritage, and the Nation.
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