TY - BOOK ID - 78642658 TI - The myth of emptiness and the new American literature of place PY - 2014 SN - 1609382927 9781609382926 9781609382797 160938279X PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - Nature in literature. KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Emptiness (Philosophy) in literature. KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Nature in poetry KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style KW - History and criticism. KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - Emptiness (Philosophy) in literature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature KW - Discourse analysis [Literary ] KW - Bass, Rick KW - Bowden, Charles KW - Meloy, Ellen KW - Raban, Jonathan KW - Solnit, Rebecca KW - Sullivan, Robert UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78642658 AB - "In Under the Sign of Empty, Wendy Harding adopts a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on the theories of geographers, historians, sociologists, and philosophers to understand the reasons for the enduring perception of emptiness in the American landscape. In doing so, she identifies a recent trend in the literature of place that corrects the misperceptions resulting from this trope"-- ER -