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Ecosublime : Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld / Lee Rozelle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rozelle, Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecocriticism.
- Ecology in literature.
- Wilderness areas in literature.
- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Environmental protection in literature.
- Conservation of natural resources in literature.
- Environmental literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Environmental literature.
- Nature in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Oceanic Terrain: The Journal of Julius Rodman and A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains; 2. ""I Kin Turn You Ter a Tree"": Hybrid Identities in The Conjure Woman and ""Life in the Iron-Mills""; 3. Ecocritical City: Modernist Reactions to Urban Environments in Eliot, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Paterson; 4. Biocentric Assimilation: Salem Cigarettes, Field Notes, and A Timbered Choir; 5. The Ozone Hole the Imagination Seeks to Fill: Theory, Exhibition, and White Noise; 6. Decentralized Visions: The Green Reader, Bearhearty and Parable of the Sower
- 7. Sabotage and Eco-Terror: Edward Abbey, the Unabomber Manifesto, and Earth First!Epilogue. From the Sublime to the (Eco)Absurd: The Millennial Activist in Pop Nature; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-128) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9058-8
- OCLC:
- 966791171
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