Dramas of solitude : narratives of retreat in American nature writing /

What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the "character" of nonhuman nature? Dramas of Solitude brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or et...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roorda, Randall, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Colección:SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Solitude in literature.
Nature in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Self in literature.
Literacy.
Loneliness in literature.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique.
Réserves de la vie sauvage dans la littérature.
Solitude dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Narration.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Loneliness in literature
American literature
Literacy
Nature in literature
Self in literature
Solitude in literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Genre and Narrative in Nature Writing 1
  • 2 Going Out, Going In: Narrative Logic in Thoreau's "Ktaadn" 21
  • 3 The Subject of The Desert 57
  • 4 Familiar Mysteries: The Exemplary Wendell Berry 101
  • 5 Sites and Senses of Writing in Nature 143
  • 6 Writer or Rhapsode? Iconic Metaphors for Literate Identity 171
  • 7 Keeping It Simple: Reinvention and Recovery of Nature in General Education 205.

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