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xvii, 315 pages ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-308) and index. |
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Section I: Green tradition. pt. I: Romantic ecology and its legacy ; pt. II: The earth, memory, and the critique of modernity -- Section II: Green theory. pt. III: Nature/Culture/Gender ; pt. IV: Ecocritical principles -- Section III: Green reading. pt. V: Environmental literary history ; pt. VI: The nature of the text -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
The Green Studies Reader is a comprehensive selection of critical texts addressing the connection between ecology, culture and literature. It offers a guide to the field of ecocriticism and material on green issues. |
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Nature as imagination / William Blake -- Primary laws / William Wordsworth -- The dialectic of mind and nature / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Writing the wilderness / Henry David Thoreau -- Landscape, mimesis, and morality / John Ruskin -- Art, socialism, and environment / William Morris -- Dorothy Wordsworth : the spirit of appearances / Virginia Woolf -- John Clare, love poet of nature / John Middleton Murry -- William Wordsworth : poetry, chemistry, nature / John F. Danby -- The green language / Raymond Williams -- Studying nature / Edward Thomas -- Remembering Pan / D.H. Lawrence -- The organic community / F.R. Leavis and Denys Thompson -- The logic of domination / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Nature as "not yet" / Theodor W. Adorno -- Shakespeare's three natures / John F. Danby -- " ... Poetically man dwells ..." / Martin Heidegger -- Hyper-technologism, pollution, and satire / Kenneth Burke -- The machine in the garden / Leo Marx -- Against single vision / Theodore Roszak. |
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The idea of nature / Kate Soper -- Language goes two ways / Gary Snyder -- The environment of myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Ecology as discourse of the secluded / Jean-François Lyotard -- Naturalized woman and feminized nature / Kate Soper -- The dualism of primatology / Donna Haraway -- Hélène Cixous : the language of flowers / Verena Andermatt Conley -- Ecocriticism : containing multitudes, practising doctrine / Scott Slovic -- Ecocriticism in context / William Howarth -- From "red" to "green" / Jonathan Bate -- The social construction of nature / Terry Gifford -- Representing the environment / Lawrence Buell -- Radical pastoral? / Greg Garrard -- Green cultural studies / Jhan Hochman -- Ecofeminist dialogics / Patrick D. Murphy -- A poststructuralist approach to ecofeminist criticism / Karla Armbruster. |
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The forest of literature / Robert Pogue Harrison -- Pastoral, anti-pastoral, post-pastoral / Terry Gifford -- Deep form in art and nature / Betty and Theodore Roszak -- Culture as decay : Arnold, Eliot, Snyder / John Elder -- Ecocriticism and the novel / Dominic Head -- Ecothrillers : environmental cliffhangers / Richard Kerridge --The ode "To Autumn" as ecosystem / Jonathan Bate -- Thoreau's ambivalence toward mother nature / Louise Westling -- Maps for tourists : Hardy, narrative, ecology / Richard Kerridge -- The flesh of the world : Virginia Woolf's Between the acts / Carol H. Cantrell -- Defending Middle-Earth / Patrick Curry -- Leslie Silko : environmental apocalypticism / Lawrence Buell -- Flooding the boundaries of form : Terry Tempest Williams's Unnatural history / Cheryll Glotflelty -- The "lambs" in The silence of the lambs / Jhan Hochman. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Ecology in literature.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Ecology in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901557
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Environmental protection in literature. (OCoLC)fst00913429
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Nature in literature. (OCoLC)fst01034680
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Romanticism. (OCoLC)fst01100133
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Coupe, Laurence, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0415204070 (alk. pbk.) |
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9780415204071 (alk. pbk.) |
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0415204062 |
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9780415204064 |
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