Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism – serie
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36 produkter
Beyond Nature Writing
Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism
Av Karla Armbruster, Kathlee R. Wallace
Inbunden, 2001
1287 kr
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Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained - until recently - closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace push well beyond that established framework …
Beyond Nature Writing
Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism
Av Karla Armbruster, Kathlee R. Wallace
Häftad, 2001
510 kr
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Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained - until recently - closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace push well beyond that established framework …
Best and Worst Country in the World
Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape
Inbunden, 2001
877 kr
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An ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and coloured the human relationship with the early Virginia landscape. Drawing on familiar history and lesser-known material, it focuses on the changes to the land over time and changes in the way people viewed Virginia.
Best and Worst Country in the World
Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape
Häftad, 2001
352 kr
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An ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and coloured the human relationship with the early Virginia landscape. Drawing on familiar history and lesser-known material, it focuses on the changes to the land over time and changes in the way people viewed Virginia.
Refiguring the Map of Sorrow
Nature Writing and Autobiography
Inbunden, 2001
899 kr
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This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
Refiguring the Map of Sorrow
Nature Writing and Autobiography
Häftad, 2001
332 kr
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This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
Nature Fakers
Wildlife, Science and Sentiment
Häftad, 2001
380 kr
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In 1903 John Burroughs published an ""Atlantic Monthly"" article attacking popular nature writers as ""sham naturalists"". This debate resulted in a new standard of accuracy for the nature writer and reflected a new way of thinking about moral responsibilities to wildlife.
Visions of the Land
Science, Literature and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
Inbunden, 2002
899 kr
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The work of John Charle Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres - including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, …
Going by Contraries
Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
Inbunden, 2002
899 kr
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One of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place for poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. By the time Robert Frost began writing, the Emersonian concept of nature as an analogue for a benevolent deity had …
Practical Ecocriticism
Literature, Biology and the Environment
Av Glen A. Love
Häftad, 2003
380 kr
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This text grounds environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology. It attempts to bridge the ever-widening gulf between the ""Two Cultures"". Glen Love - a founder of ecocriticism - argues that literary studies has been diminshed by a general lack of …
Lines on the Land
Writers, Art, and the National Parks
Inbunden, 2004
782 kr
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The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to be believed. The public demanded proof, and a host of artists and writers obliged. These early explorers possessed a …
Eco-man
New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature
Av Mark Allister, Mark Allister
Inbunden, 2004
852 kr
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The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works - think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner - look to the wild as the site for …
Eco-man
New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature
Av Mark Allister, Mark Allister
Häftad, 2004
359 kr
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The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male's reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate it. Many canonical literary works - think of Thoreau, Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner - look to the wild as the site for …
Out of the Shadow
Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land
Av Rinda West
Häftad, 2007
377 kr
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In Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human ""nature."" Our increasing lack of intimacy with the land has led to a decreased capacity to access parts of the psyche not …
Different Shades of Green
African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
Inbunden, 2014
890 kr
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Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and …
Different Shades of Green
African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and …
Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Av Kate Rigby
Häftad, 2015
364 kr
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The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to …
Anthropocene Fictions
The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Av Adam Trexler
Inbunden, 2015
980 kr
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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The …
Anthropocene Fictions
The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Av Adam Trexler
Häftad, 2015
429 kr
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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The …
Eden's Endemics
Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond
Inbunden, 2020
753 kr
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In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more …
Narrating the Mesh
Form and Story in the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2021
1287 kr
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A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton's concept of the ""mesh"" as a metaphor for the …
Narrating the Mesh
Form and Story in the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2021
510 kr
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A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton's concept of the ""mesh"" as a metaphor for the …
Basura
Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain
Av Samuel Amago
Inbunden, 2021
1235 kr
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What makes trash trash? How do we decide what to throw away? Driven by these questions and others, Samuel Amago takes us through the streets and alleys of Spain, sorting through recycling bins, libraries, social media, bookstores, and message boards in search of things that have been forgotten, …
Visions of the Land
Science, Literature and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
Häftad, 2002
313 kr
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The work of John Charle Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres - including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, …
Going by Contraries
Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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One of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place for poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. By the time Robert Frost began writing, the Emersonian concept of nature as an analogue for a benevolent deity had …
Peak Experiences
Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature and Need
Av Ian Marshall
Inbunden, 2003
586 kr
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Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being.
Practical Ecocriticism
Literature, Biology and the Environment
Inbunden, 2003
714 kr
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This text grounds environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology. It attempts to bridge the ever-widening gulf between the ""Two Cultures"". Glen Love - a founder of ecocriticism - argues that literary studies has been diminshed by a general lack of …
Lines on the Land
Writers, Art, and the National Parks
Häftad, 2004
286 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to be believed. The public demanded proof, and a host of artists and writers obliged. These early explorers possessed a …
Mary Austin's Regionalism
Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography
Inbunden, 2004
698 kr
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Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays about the California deserts, the Western writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) was a prolific literary figure in the first few decades of the twentieth century. In addition to her essays and short stories, Austin produced …
Westernness
A Meditation
Inbunden, 2006
489 kr
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A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, ""Westernness: A Meditation"" explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner …
