Refiguring the map of sorrow : nature writing and autobiography / Mark Allister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allister, Mark Christopher, 1956-

Series:

Under the sign of nature.

Under the sign of nature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Autobiography.

Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, American.

Natural history--United States--Historiography.

Natural history.

Naturalists--Biography--History and criticism.

Naturalists.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As he focuses on the many ways in which humans connect--often deeply and urgently--to animals or the land, Allister vastly extends our understanding of "relationalautobiography.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Writing the Self through Others

Chapter 2: Living the Questions, Writing the Story

Chapter 3: An Unnatural History Made Natural

Chapter 4: When All the World Is Cancerous

Chapter 5: Constructing a Self on the Road

Chapter 6: A Pilgrimage to Fashion a Zen Self

Chapter 7: Making a Home on the Range

Epilogue: "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live"

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

ISBN:

9786613585127

9781280489891

1280489898

9780813921945

0813921945

OCLC:

65634748