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Author Gifford, Terry.

Title Reconnecting with John Muir [electronic resource] : essays in post-pastoral practice / Terry Gifford.

Imprint Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 201 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.
Contents Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Appreciation -- United States.
Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Influence.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism.
Mountaineering in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780820327969 (alk. paper)
0820327964 (alk. paper)
9780820336657

 
    
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