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03144aam a22004458i 4500 001 39C51378B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180905010705 008 171219s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017057390 020 $a 0190646543 020 $a 9780190646547 035 $a (OCoLC)1019649962 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS169.P53 $b G38 2018 082 00 $a 810.9/358 $2 23 100 1 $a Gatta, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Spirits of place in American literary culture / $c John Gatta. 263 $a 1807 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 286 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Centered on analyzing US literatures, it reflects a theological phenomenology cognizant of the spiritualities grounded in First Nature as well as settled spaces" -- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a s Introduction 1. Houses of the Spirit Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Cather, Robinson, 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 Lopez, Servid, Muir, Momaday, Bradstreet, Thoreau, Snyder, Berry, Haskell Moving On and Beginning Again From Pilgrim's Way to the Open Road Localism vs. Globalism Two Versions of Globally-Engaged Localism 3. The Place of Imagination Whitman, Nelson, VeÌa 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 Thoreau, Tillinghast, Black Elk, Melville, Lincoln, Abbey, Williams, Norris, Day, Baldwin, 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 Afterword. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Place (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Sacred space in literature. 650 0 $a Spirituality in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Home in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959307 650 7 $a Place (Philosophy) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01064981 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019010902.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802015715.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=39C51378B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search