The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West by Poulsen, Richard C.

The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820413754)

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The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West by Poulsen, Richard C.

The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West

$45.95
The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West by Poulsen, Richard C.

The Landscape of the Mind: Cultural Transformations of the American West

$45.95
Format: Hardcover
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The Landscape of the Mind concerns itself with cultural ways of finding meaning in and imposing meaning on a specific landscape, the American West. The book traces these transformations from early Spanish explorers, to Native Americans, to Mountain Men, to The Cowboy, to an immigrant group (the Mormons), to current images. No book now in print has dealt with the nature of such transformations. The book is a direct response to Elias Canetti's insightful comment that, The talent for transformation which has given man so much power over all other creatures has as yet scarcely been considered or begun to be understood.

Author: Richard C. Poulsen
ISBN-10: 0820413755
ISBN-13: 9780820413754
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
By Richard C. Poulsen
By Richard C. Poulsen
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The Author: Richard C. Poulsen received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Utah in 1976. He has published three other books: The Pure Experience of Order, Misbegotten Muses and The Mountain Man Vernacular. He has been awarded two Fulbright Lectureships, one to Denmark and one to Finland and is currently Professor of English at Brigham Young University.

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