For love of the world : essays on nature writers / Sherman Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Sherman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Natural history--United States--Historiography.

Natural history.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers-who may be something of all three-address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos.In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it.In For Love of the World Sherman Paul considers Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, major writers in th

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Thoreau; Thinking with Thoreau; From Walden Out; Three Reviews; Leopold; The Husbandry of the Wild; Aldo Leopold's Counter-Friction; Lopez; Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez; Beston; Coming Home to the World: Another Journal for Henry Beston; Nelson; The Education of a Hunter: Reading Richard Nelson; A Letter from Richard Nelson; Eiseley; Back and Down: Loren Eiseley's Immense Journey; Muir; Muir's Self-Authorizings

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-58729-181-9

OCLC:

44964814