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Artifacts & illuminations : critical essays on Loren Eiseley /

"Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lynch, Tom, 1955-, Maher, Susan Naramore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
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  • "The bay of broken things": the experience of loss in the work of Loren Eiseley / Susan Hanson
  • "Never going to cease my wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American hobo / M. Catherine Downs
  • "The places below": Mapping the invisible universe in Loren Eiseley's plains essays / Susan N. Maher
  • Unearthing urban nature: Loren Eiseley's explorations of city and suburb / Michael A. Bryson
  • Anthropomorphizing the essay: Loren Eiseley's representations of animals / Kathleen Boardman
  • "The borders between us": Loren Eiseley's ecopoetics / Tom Lynch
  • Lessons of an interdisciplinary life: Loren Eiseley's rhetoric of profundity in popular science writing and "two cultures" pedagogy / Pamela Gossin
  • Artifact and idea: Loren Eiseley's poetic undermining of C.P. Snow / Mary Ellen Pitts
  • The spirit of synecdoche: order and chaos contend in the metaphors of Loren Eiseley / Jacqueline Cason
  • In a dark wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the ecology of redemption / Anthony Lioi
  • Emerson and Eiseley: two religious visions / Jonathan Weidenbaum
  • Epic narratives of evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley / Stephen Mercier
  • Eiseley and Jung: structuralism's invisible pyramid / John Nizalowski
  • From the American great plains to the steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley transplanted / Dimitri N. Breschinsky.