Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9780820336688
Content:
This collection of sixteen previously unpublished ecocriticism essays explores some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, and the urbanized Northeast.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking of Our Life in Nature -- Part 1. Who Are We? Where Are We? Exploring the Boundaries of Ecocriticism -- Of Swamp Dragons: Mud, Megalopolis, and a Future for Ecocriticism -- Challenging the Confines: Haiku from the Prison Camps -- Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism -- To Name Is to Claim, or Remembering Place: Native American Writers Reclaim the Northeast -- Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide -- Part 2. The Solid Earth! The Actual World! Environmental Discourse and Practice -- Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design -- A Mosaic of Landscapes: Ecological Restoration and the Work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko -- Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature -- Facing the True Costs of Living: Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on Dams and Writing -- Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job: Notes toward a Postnatural Ecocriticism -- Part 3. Contact! Contact! Interdisciplinary Connections -- Seeking Common Ground: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities -- Mindless Fools and Leaves That Run: Subjectivity, Politics, and Myth in Scientific Nomenclature -- Reading after Darwin: A Prospectus -- Of Spiders, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: Domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature -- The Great, Shaggy Barbaric Earth: Geological Writings of John Burroughs -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820328850
Additional Edition:
Print version Coming into Contact : Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Coming into contact Athens [u.a.] : University of Georgia Press, 2007 ISBN 9780820328850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0820328855
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820328867
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0820328863
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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