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Author Allister, Mark Christopher, 1956-

Title Refiguring the map of sorrow : nature writing and autobiography / Mark Allister.

Imprint Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  818.5409 Al56r 2001    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description viii, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Under the sign of nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
Contents Writing the self through others -- Living the questions, writing the story : Sue Hubbell's A Country year -- An unnatural history made natural : Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge -- When all the world is cancerous : Bill Barich's laughing in the hills -- Constructing a self on the road : William Least Heat-Moon's Blue highways -- Pilgrimage to fashion a Zen self : Peter Matthiessen's The Snow leopard -- Making a home on the range : Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of open spaces and Western myths.
Subject American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Natural history -- United States -- Historiography.
Naturalists -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
ISBN 0813920655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813920647 (alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA170573

 
    
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