| Description |
xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Essays based on lectures and papers delivered at the first conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ego or eco criticism? Looking for common ground / William Howarth -- Toward an ecology of justice: transformative ecological theory and practice / Joni Adamson Clarke -- Talking about trees in Stumptown: pedagogical problems in teaching EcoComp / Michael McDowell -- Dropping the subject: reflections on the motives for an ecological criticism / Eric Todd Smith -- Bodega Head: an excursion in nuclear shamanism / John P. O'Grady -- "Whole shoals of men": representations of women anglers in seventeenth-century British poetry / Anne E. McIlhaney -- Dorothy Wordsworth, ecology, and the picturesque / Robert Mellin -- Mary Austin's nature: refiguring tradition through the voices of identity / Anna Carew-Miller -- Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean / J. Gerard Dollar -- Body as bioregion / Deborah Slicer -- Ornithological autobiography of John James Audubon / Chris Beyers -- "A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the death of wilderness, and the birth of the national subject / David Mazel -- Nathaniel Hawthorne had a farm: artists, laborers, and landscapes in The Blithedale romance / Kelly M. Flynn -- Agrarian environmental models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming" / Stephanie Sarver -- Exploring the linguistic wilderness of The Maine woods / Ann E. Lundberg -- "I only seek to put you in rapport": message and method in Walt Whitman's Specimen days / Daniel J. Philippon -- Beyond the excursion: initiatory themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams / John Tallmadge -- Aime Cesaire's A tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prosperpo's books as ecological readings and rewritings of Shakespeare's The tempest / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Seeing, believing, and acting: ethics and self-representation in ecocriticsm and nature writing / H. Lewis Ulman -- Don DeLillo's postmodern pastoral / Dana Phillips -- "The world was the beginning of the world": agency and homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage / Leonard M. Scigaj. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Environmental policy in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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| Added Author |
Branch, Michael P.
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (1995 : Fort Collins, Colo.)
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| ISBN |
0893012130 alkaline paper |
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0893012203 paperback alkaline paper |
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