Reconnecting with John Muir : essays in post-pastoral practice /
Gifford, Terry,
Reconnecting with John Muir : essays in post-pastoral practice / Terry Gifford. - x, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
To John Muir from Lake Tenaya -- Keeping faith with the source -- To John Muir from the rim of Nevada Falls -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- To John Muir from Mono Lake -- Muir's multiple discourses -- To John Muir from Lake Tahoe -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- To John Muir from the trail to Mirror Lake -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- To John Muir from Camp Four -- Rick Bass's Fiber as a post-pastoral Georgic -- To John Muir from Tuolumne Meadows -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- To John Muir from Fairview Dome -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- To John Muir from Mount Hoffman -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- To John Muir from Cathedral Peak -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- To John Muir from Glacier Point Apron -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- To John Muir from the Royal Arches -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism -- To John Muir from Half Dome -- Introducing ecocriticism into the university curriculum -- Twenty-five kinds of post-pastoral landscape poem -- Advice for new writers targeting outdoor magazines. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. App. A. App. B. App. C.
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Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Appreciation--United States.
Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Influence.
American literature--History and criticism--20th century
Nature in literature
Environmentalism--History--United States--20th century.
Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism
Mountaineering in literature
Ecocriticism
PS228.N39 / G54 2006
810.936
Reconnecting with John Muir : essays in post-pastoral practice / Terry Gifford. - x, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
To John Muir from Lake Tenaya -- Keeping faith with the source -- To John Muir from the rim of Nevada Falls -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- To John Muir from Mono Lake -- Muir's multiple discourses -- To John Muir from Lake Tahoe -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- To John Muir from the trail to Mirror Lake -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- To John Muir from Camp Four -- Rick Bass's Fiber as a post-pastoral Georgic -- To John Muir from Tuolumne Meadows -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- To John Muir from Fairview Dome -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- To John Muir from Mount Hoffman -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- To John Muir from Cathedral Peak -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- To John Muir from Glacier Point Apron -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- To John Muir from the Royal Arches -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism -- To John Muir from Half Dome -- Introducing ecocriticism into the university curriculum -- Twenty-five kinds of post-pastoral landscape poem -- Advice for new writers targeting outdoor magazines. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. App. A. App. B. App. C.
0820327964 9780820327969
2005020763
Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Appreciation--United States.
Muir, John, 1838-1914 --Influence.
American literature--History and criticism--20th century
Nature in literature
Environmentalism--History--United States--20th century.
Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism
Mountaineering in literature
Ecocriticism
PS228.N39 / G54 2006
810.936