Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /

Offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with eit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buell, Lawrence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Environmental protection in literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
Environmental policy in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale, dans la littérature.
Environnement > Protection, dans la littérature.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Ecology in literature
English literature
Environmental policy in literature
Environmental protection in literature
Landscapes in literature
Nature conservation in literature
Nature in literature
Ökologie > Motiv
Natur > Motiv
Literatur
Umweltschutz > Motiv
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Ecologie.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toxic discourse
  • The place of place
  • Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city
  • Discourses of determinism
  • Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold
  • Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales
  • The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice
  • Watershed aesthetics.

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