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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they're reading in a new way"--
"The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This book offers an introductory overview of literary...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this heuristic study, I explore how four ecological writers, or wild writers, experience Nature. I identify with and participate in this inquiry because I am an ecological writer searching to understand my relationship to the natural world. That relationship begins in primary experience. The term "Nature" core to this exploration includes interactions of all dispositions of Gaia, organic and inorganic, human and not human, constructed by humans...
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of American poetry about nature and the environment, divided into a historical section with poetry written from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and a contemporary section with over 300 poems written since 1960 by a diverse group of more than 170 poets. Introduction by Robert Hass"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of his life - the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate fully in its most intense moments - and he examines the tension created by his efforts to balance these two poles of his responsibility. These essays reveal...
17) John Muir
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 73
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Critical and analytical consideration of the naturalist's writings as belles-lettres.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Out on the edges of our frantic twenty-first-century nation, bands of wild horses stand nestled together, calmly nuzzling each other to maintain the bonds of family. Prairie hills unfurl around them, and the sky provides their shelter. In the same states where factories churn, offices bustle, and cell phones demand our attention, remote places of solace and beauty rest, mostly undiscovered, in a parallel world that lies closer than we often imagine....