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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.
8) 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.
Series
Options for teaching volume 7
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
13) The big sky
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
THE BIG SKY is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places. A legend before he turns 20,...
Author
Series
Philosophy and the environment volume 5
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English