Books by Annette Kolodny

A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.

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.