Revista de Letras - Utad

Clouds, streams and paths… 165studied by geographers, if used by artists – as in the above examples –, turn outas images which track the human search for transcendence and totality; fromexternal and geographic, these elements become realms of imagination,reflecting human spiritual movement in search of the self.Works CitedAnderson, Lorraine (2002): “Introduction: The Great Chorus of Woman andNature”. In Lorraine Anderson and Thomas Edwards. At Home on ThisEarth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women’s nature Writing. Hanover andLondon: UP of New England: 1-9.Bachelard, Gaston. (1943): L’Air et les Songes: Essai sur l’imagination dumovement. Paris: Librairie José Corti.Buell, Lawrence (1996): The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, NatureWriting and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge/London: TheBelknap Press of Harvard University Press.Cather, Willa (1990): Death Comes for the Archbishop. Later Novels: A LostLady, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadowson the Rock, Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: TheLibrary of America [1927]: 273-459.Dillard, Annie (1988): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Harper Perennial.Elder, John (1985): Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature,Urbana and Chicago.Howe, Daniel (2009): Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards toAbraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press.Johnson, Rochelle (2009): Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’sAesthetics of Alienation. Athens and London: The University of GeorgiaPress.Kazin, Alfred (1988): A Writer’s America. Landscape in Literature. New York:Alfred Knopf.Lopez, Barry (2004): “The American Geographies”. Vintage Lopez. New York:Vintage Books: 81-97.Marx, Leo (1964): The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the PastoralIdeal in America. New York: Oxford University Press.Novak, Barbara (1995): Nature and Culture: Landscape Painting 1825-1875.New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.