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The ecocriticism reader : landmarks in literary ecology / edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xxxvii, 415 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0820317802
  • 9780820317809
  • 0820317810
  • 9780820317816
Other title:
  • Landmarks in literary ecology
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 801.95 23
LOC classification:
  • PN81 .E24 1996
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 was 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 both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"The Ecocriticism Reader was 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 both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world."--Back cover.

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