Re-Imagining Nature

Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English and founding coordinator of the Nature and Human Communities (now Place Studies) Initiative at Bucknell University.

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental Humanities Part One: BackgroundsChapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3 By Alfred Kentigern SiewersChapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for Ecosemiotics By Timo MaranChapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject By Cary WolfePart Two: Medieval NaturesChapter 5: “The Secret Folds of Nature”: Eriugena's Expansive Concept of Nature By Dermot MoranChapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints’ Lives By John CareyChapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages By Jeffrey Jerome CohenPart Three: Re-Negotiating Native NaturesChapter 8: The Yua as Logoi By Fr Michael OleksaChapter 9: Intersubjectivity with “Nature” in Plains Indian Vision-seeking By Kathryn W. ShanleyChapter 10: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: Smooth Rocks in a River Archipelago By Katherine M. FaullChapter 11: Human Geographies and Landscapes of the Divine in Ibero-American Borderlands By Cynthia RaddingChapter 12: Call and Response: The Human/Non-Human Encounter in Linda Hogan’s SolarStormsBy Sarah ReeseSuggested Reading Bibliography Index About the Contributors