Søkt på: Serie under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
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Narrating the Mesh
A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental …
Dancing with Disaster
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex …
Different Shades of Green
Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental …
Beyond Nature Writing
Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained - until recently - closely focused on critical analyses of nature …
Visions of the Land
The work of John Charle Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of …
Going by Contraries
One of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place for poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of …
Practical Ecocriticism
This text grounds environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology. It attempts to bridge the ever-widening gulf between the ""Two …
Westernness
A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, ""Westernness: A Meditation"" explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in …
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa
The pivotal figure in ""Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa"" is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist. Like …
Refiguring the Map of Sorrow
This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside …