American Madonna. Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture. - GATTA, J.,

images of the divine woman in literary culture

KORTE INHOUD

Author John Gatta delineates a countercultural pattern of mythic assertion that has yet to be acknowledged in standard surveys of American cultural or literary history. Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as a deficiency of psychic femininity, or anima, in America
1997Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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1997Uitgever: Oxford University Press179 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195112628ISBN-13: 9780195112627

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