Artifacts & illuminations : critical essays on Loren Eiseley / edited and with an introduction by Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Tom, 1955-

Maher, Susan Naramore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977--Criticism and interpretation.

Eiseley, Loren C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Artifacts and illuminations

Critical essays on Loren Eiseley

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time.As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Ar

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. " The Bay of Broken Things"; 2. " Never Going to Cease My Wandering"; 3. " The Places Below"; 4. Unearthing Urban Nature; 5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay; 6. " The Borders between Us"; 7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life; 8. Artifact and Idea; 9. The Spirit of Synecdoche; 10. In a Dark Wood; 11. Emerson and Eiseley; 12. Epic Narratives of Evolution; 13. Eiseley and Jung; 14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613664600

9780803240490

080324049X

9781280687662

1280687665

OCLC:

792742079