The Lay of the Land
Subtitle: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 27, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780807841181
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Literary Criticism; American Literature (General); Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; History / United States / General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; ecocriticism; women; American studies; cultural studies; American literature; General; History; History and criticism; Nature in literature; Philosophy; United States
First sentence: 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.