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Shows what literary criticism can bring to historical and social scientific endeavours

Annette Kolodny is College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century and the editor of The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, by Joseph Nicolar, both also published by Duke University Press. In addition, she is the author of The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Fron...

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of "land-as-woman”. It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity, and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of fronti...

Revealing and compelling, "Failing the Future" explores the present state of higher education in the United States, and offers a sobering view of what lies ahead.

A former professor and Dean looks at the future of education in the U.S. as well as the dilemmas facing current and future educators.