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Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives : Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada / by K. Crane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crane, Kylie.
- Series:
- Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment, 2946-3165
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Communication.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wilderness as Projection: Reading Practices and Aritha van Herk's Places Far from Ellesmere; 2 Wilderness as Liminal Space: Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Problems of the Map; 3 Wilderness Beyond Frontiers: Matrices of Belonging in Kim Mahood's Craft for a Dry Lake; 4 Wilderness Values (I): Aesthetic and Scientific Rhetoric in Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon; 5 Wilderness Values (II): Protection and Exploitation in Julia Leigh's The Hunter; 6 Wilderness Survival: Future Natures in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Epilogue
- NotesWorks Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283947107
- 1283947102
- 9781137000798
- 1137000791
- OCLC:
- 822223345
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