Literature of nature : an international sourcebook / edited by Patrick D. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Patrick D., 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [1998].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

part, Section i : The United States and Canada

chapter Section i : The United States and Canada

Writing About Nature in Early America: From Discovery to 1850 Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson

chapter Early American Natural Histories

Paul Lindholdt

chapter Science and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century American Nature Literature

Laura Dassow Walls

chapter 19 30 -19 4 0 ” Brad Lookingbill

Brad Lookingbill

chapter “ The World Is the Greatest Thing in the World” : The Objectivists9 “Immanent” Pastoral1

Judith Schwartz

chapter 19 4 5-19 6 0 ” Richard Harmond and G. A. Cevasco

Silent Springs Richard Harmond and G. A. Cevasco

chapter The World o f the Beats and Others

Barry Silesky

chapter Writers o f the Adirondacks

Glenn Sandiford and John Cooley

chapter 4 Case Studies in Southern Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley

Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon

chapter Garden Writing in the South

Karen Cole

chapter Literary Nonfiction Writing o f the American Desert

Andrea W. Herrmann

chapter Women's Resistance in the Desert West

Susanne Bounds and Patti Capel Swartz

chapter Conversions to Earth: Spiritual Transformations in American Nature Writers

F. Marina Schauffler

chapter Knocking on Nature’s Door: Religious Meaning in Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry

Lex Runciman

chapter American Ecobiography

Cecilia Konchar Farr

chapter North Woods Writers

Don Scheese and Claude Brew

chapter The Realistic W ild Animal Story

chapter “A path toward nature” : Haiku's Aesthetics o f Awareness

Tom Lynch

chapter North American Women in the Wilderness

Jo Ann Myer Valenti

chapter Canadian Environmental Writing

Rebecca Raglon and Marion Scholtmeijer

chapter The Land Writes Back: Notes on Four Western Canadian Writers

Pamela Banting

part, Section 2: Europe

chapter Section 2

Nature in the English Novel Richard Kerridge

chapter Environmental Literature: The English Descriptive Prose Tradition

Jeremy Hooker

chapter The Idea o f Nature in English Poetry

Neil Roberts and Terry Gifford

chapter Nature Writing in Irish Literature

James Me Elroy

chapter Nature in Scottish Literature

Christopher MacLachlan

chapter The Environment in Twentieth-Century Welsh Writing in English

Linden Peach

chapter The Mountain in Twentieth-Century French Literature

Tamara L. Whited

chapter The Nature o f German Romanticism

Deborah Janson.

chapter Environmental Elements in Maltese Literature: The Example o f Dun Karm, Malta's National Poet

Oliver Friggieri

chapter Woman and the Land in the Romanian Agrarian Novel

Lucia Cherciu

chapter Nature and Environment in Russian Literary Prose

Yuri Vedenin

chapter Nature and Environment in Russian Poetry

Olga Lavrenova

chapter The Theme o f Nature in Russian Theater

Alexander V. Kamenets

chapter Russian Ecological Nonfiction

Yuri L. Mazourov

chapter The Environment and Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

Dale Pratt and Barbara Gordon

part, Section 3 : Asia and the Pacific

chapter Section 3

200 Years o f the Australian Desert in Literature Roslynn D. Haynes

chapter Early Perceptions o f the Natural History of Australia in Popular Literature

Nick Drayson

chapter Ecological Restoration and the Evolution o f Postcolonial National Identity in the Maori and Australian Aboriginal Novel

C. Christopher Norden

chapter Modern Japanese Nature Writing: An Overview

Shogo Ikuta

chapter Pre-Modern Japanese Nature Writing: The Example o f Ando Shoeki

Ken Akiyama and Bruce Allen

chapter Nature in Modern Japanese Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Takasbi Kinosbita and Masataka Ota Fiction

chapter The Conservation Movement and Its Literature in Japan

Tsutomu Takahashi, Sadamicbi Kato, and Reiko Akamine

chapter Contemporary Environmental Writers of South Korea

Yong-ki Kang

chapter Environmental Literature: A Chinese Perspective

Wu Dingbo

chapter Ecological Consciousness in the Contemporary Literature o f Taiwan

Yang Ming-tu

chapter 2 Centuries of Environmental Writing in India

Kamala Platt

part, Section 4: Africa and the Arab World

chapter Section 4: Africa and the Arab World

War and Environment in African Literature Christine Ombaka

chapter Long Live the Fresh A ir! Long Live! Environmental Culture in the New South Africa

Julia Martin

chapter Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women's Literature

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

chapter Symbolic and Intersubjective Representations in Arab Environmental Writing

Maysa Abou-Youssef

part, Section y. Latin America and the Poles

chapter Section Latin America and the Poles

Brazilian Art and Literature: Oswald de Andrade's Contribution to Global Ecology Marcos Reigota

chapter The Caribbean: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Land and the People’s Relationships to Their Environment

Seodial Deena

chapter Ecology and Latin American Poetry

Roberto Forns-Broggi

chapter Seeing Green: 5 Years o f Writing the Amazon

Timothy Gaynor

chapter The Arctic in Literature

Sheila Nickerson

chapter The Southern End of the Earth: Antarctic Literature

Elle Tracy ow was it up there?” is a common

part, Section 6: Topics, Genres, Theory, and Other Arts

chapter Section 6: Topics, Genres, Theory, and Other Arts

Voices from the Western Borderlands: Cross-Cultural Study o f Chicana, Native American, and Women Writers f the American West Benay Blend

chapter Playing with Wor(l)ds: Science Fiction as Environmental Literature

Noel Gough

chapter Visual Symbolism and Aesthetic Constructions: National Landscapes in the Making o f Finland

Maunu Hayrynen

chapter Green Cultural Studies

Jhan Hochman

chapter Speaking for Nature

Karla Armbruster

chapter Aesthetics and Ecolog yn : A Nonfictional View

chapter Women “ Writing” Nature: Exploring Contemporary Travelers and the Idea of Home

Arlene Plevin

chapter Literature as Community: The Essential Utility o f the Literature of Earth First!

Steven C. Steel

chapter N O T E S ON C O N T R I B U T O R S.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-203-96918-9

0-585-08898-5

9780203969182

OCLC:

43475819