Reimagining Environmental History : Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change /

"Christian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Knoeller, Christian, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umwelt > Motiv
Literatur
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in art.
Ecocriticism.
Conservation of natural resources in literature.
American literature.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environnementalisme dans la litterature.
Conservation des ressources naturelles dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Écocritique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Middle West > History and criticism.
USA
Middle West.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Opening with Thoreau
  • Nineteenth-century artist-naturalists. 1. The making of a conservationist : John James Audubon (1785-1851) ; 2. Envisioning restoration : Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)
  • Ecological essayists. 3. To live in the wilderness as a wild creature myself : Paul Errington (1902-1962) ; 4. The wilds that gave us birth : Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945)
  • Poets expressing ecological sensibilities. 5. Poetics of place in "North American sequence" : Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) ; 6. Landscapes of the past : William Stafford (1914-1993)
  • Native American novelists. 7. Landscape and language : Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) ; 8. Giving voice to history : Diane Glancy (b. 1941)
  • Contemporary literary naturalists. 9. Time's horizon : Elizabeth Dodd (b. 1962) ; 10. Islands of time : Paul Gruchow (1947-2004)
  • Epilogue: Returning.

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