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