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Title Coming into contact [electronic resource] : explorations in ecocritical theory and practice / edited by Annie Merrill Ingram ... [et al.].

Imprint Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007.

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Description ix, 278 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism -- Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi -- Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie -- Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi -- To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger -- Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin -- Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice -- Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren -- A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla -- Apocalyptic or precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M. Patrick -- Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen --Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel -- Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections -- Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls -- Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat -- Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen -- Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto --The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ecology in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Environmental literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Human ecology in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ingram, Annie Merrill, 1961-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820328855 (alk. paper)
9780820328850 (alk. paper)
0820328863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820328867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820336688

 
    
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