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xxxvii, 415 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The historical roots of our ecologic crisis / Lynn White Jr. -- Nature and silence / Christopher Manes -- From transcendence to obsolescence : a route map / Harold Fromm -- Cultivating the American garden / Frederick Turner -- The uses of landscape : the picturesque aesthetic and the national park system / Alison Byerly -- Some principles of ecocriticism / William Howarth -- Beyond ecology : self, place, and the pathetic fallacy / Neil Evernden -- Literature and ecology : an experiment in ecocriticism / William Rueckert -- The land and language of desire : where the deep ecology and post-structuralism meet / Sueellen Campbell -- American literary environmentalism as domestic orientalism / David Mazel -- The carrier bag theory of fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The comic mode / Joseph W. Meeker -- Unearthing herstory : an introduction / Annette Kolodny -- Speaking a word for nature / Scott Russell Snaders -- The postnatural novel : toxic consciousness in fiction of the 1980s / Cynthia Deitering -- Is nature necessary? / Dana Phillips -- Revaluing nature : toward an ecological criticism / Glen A. Love -- The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective / Paula Gunn Allen -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- A taxonomy of nature writing / Thomas J. Lyon -- Indexing American possibilities : the natural history writing of Bartram, Wilson, and Audubon / Michael Branch -- Desert solitaire : counter-friction to the machine in the garden / Don Scheese -- Heroines of nature : four women respond to the American landscape / Vera K. Norwood -- Nature writing and environmental psychology : the interiority of outdoor experience / Scott Slovic -- The Bakhtinian road to ecological insight / Michael J. Mcdowell. |
| Summary |
The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing--from novels and folktales to U.S. government reports and corporate advertisements--both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world. The Ecocriticism Reader is an introduction to the field as well as a source book. It defines ecological literary discourse, sketches its development over the past quarter-century, provides generally appealing and lucidly written examples of the range of ecological approaches to literature, and offers direction for further study through lists of recommended readings, relevant periodicals, and professional organizations. |
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Criticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
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Ecocriticism. (OCoLC)fst00901428
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Ecology in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901557
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Nature in literature. (OCoLC)fst01034680
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| Indexed Term |
Literature Criticism Related to Ecology |
| Added Author |
Glotfelty, Cheryll.
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Fromm, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0820317802 |
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9780820317809 (alk. paper) |
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0820317810 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780820317816 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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