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Reading the earth : new directions in the study of literature and environment / edited by Michael P. Branch ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library PS169.E25 R43 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Environmental literature--History and criticism.
- Environmental literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Environmental protection in literature.
- Environmental policy in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays shows how the vital connections between literature and the physical environment can enrich the value of contemporary literary studies for both academics and general readers.
- Contents:
- Ego or eco criticism? Looking for common ground / William Howarth
- Toward an ecology of justice: transformative ecological theory and practice / Joni Adamson Clarke
- Talking about trees in Stumptown: pedagogical problems in teaching EcoComp / Michael McDowell
- Dropping the subject: reflections on the motives for an ecological criticism / Eric Todd Smith
- Bodega Head: an excursion in nuclear shamanism / John P. O'Grady
- "Whole shoals of men": representations of women anglers in seventeenth-century British poetry / Anne E. McIlhaney
- Dorothy Wordsworth, ecology, and the picturesque / Robert Mellin
- Mary Austin's nature: refiguring tradition through the voices of identity / Anna Carew-Miller
- Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean / J. Gerard Dollar
- Body as bioregion / Deborah Slicer
- Ornithological autobiography of John James Audubon / Chris Beyers
- "A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the death of wilderness, and the birth of the national subject / David Mazel
- Nathaniel Hawthorne had a farm: artists, laborers, and landscapes in The Blithedale romance / Kelly M. Flynn
- Agrarian environmental models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming" / Stephanie Sarver
- Exploring the linguistic wilderness of The Maine woods / Ann E. Lundberg
- "I only seek to put you in rapport": message and method in Walt Whitman's Specimen days / Daniel J. Philippon
- Beyond the excursion: initiatory themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams / John Tallmadge
- Aime Cesaire's A tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prosperpo's books as ecological readings and rewritings of Shakespeare's The tempest / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi
- Seeing, believing, and acting: ethics and self-representation in ecocriticsm and nature writing / H. Lewis Ulman
- Don DeLillo's postmodern pastoral / Dana Phillips
- "The world was the beginning of the world": agency and homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage / Leonard M. Scigaj.
- Notes:
- Essays based on lectures and papers delivered at the first conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0893012130
- 0893012203
- OCLC:
- 37928458
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