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Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature /

Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
©2014
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Seventh generation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture. End of a world
  • Influence and confluence: family, nature, war
  • Ecology then: the lake of tears
  • Dispelling dejà vu, part one
  • Dispelling dejà vu, part two
  • Defying apocalypse
  • Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability
  • No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson
  • Epiphany matters
  • Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money
  • The presence of roadkill
  • Reprise. World's end: seeing and sustenance.