Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 September 2018
- ISBN 9780190646547
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 145x211x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete sites or dwelling places on earth? This book 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.
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What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, for humans to form an intimate relation with particular sites or dwelling places on earth? In ancient Rome, the notion of a locale's genius loci signaled recognition of its enchanted, enspirited identity. But in a digitalized America of unprecedented mobility can place still matter as seed ground for the soul? Such questions have been broached by ecocritics concerned with how place-inflected experience figures in literature, and by theologians concerned with ecotheology and ecospirituality. This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective, informed by a theological phenomenology of place that takes fuller account of the spiritualities associated with built environments than ecocriticism typically does.
Spirits of Place blends theological and cultural analysis with personal reflection, while focusing on the multi-layered witness presented by American literature. John Gatta's interpretive readings range across texts by an array of canonical as well as lesser-known writers. Along the way, it addresses such themes as the religious implications of localism vs. globalism; the diverse spiritualities associated with long-term residency, resettlement, and pilgrimage; why some sites seem more hallowed than others; and how the creative spirit of Imagination figures in place-identified perceptions of the numinous. Whether in Christian or other religious terms, no discrete place matters absolutely. Yet this study demonstrates how and why hallowed geography and the sacramentality of place have mattered throughout our cultural history.
Gatta provides rich detail about a first-year program at Sewanee called "Find Your Place," which he uses as an example of "what [it might] look like to make place-making-in its fullest intellectual, existential, and social context-a deliberate goal of higher education. Summing up: Recommended
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. Houses of the Spirit
Chapter 2. Spirits of Pilgrimage, Peregrination, and Re-Placement
Chapter 3. The Place of Imagination
Chapter 4. Sacred Sites and Geographies
Chapter 5. Contemplating Site-Based Education and Place-making
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
