Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England CultureUniv of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 466 pages The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape_a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St |
Table des matières
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xi |
On Implication | 1 |
Implicated Places | 15 |
Embodied Spaces | 115 |
Attacking Houses | 205 |
Disappearing Acts | 297 |
Metaphysics and Markets | 379 |
NOTES | 399 |
| 455 | |
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