For love of the world : essays on nature writers /

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Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers-who may be something of all three-address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos. In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sh...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Paul, Sherman
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1992.
Sujets:
American literature > History and criticism.
Natural history > United States > Historiography.
Natural history literature > United States > History.
Nature in literature.
Sciences naturelles > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Sciences naturelles > Documentation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Nature dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
NATURE > General.
American literature
Natural history > Historiography
Natural history literature
Nature in literature
Natuur.
Littérature américaine > Thèmes, motifs.
Nature > Dans la littérature.
United States
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers-who may be something of all three-address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos. In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it. In For Love of the World Sherman Paul considers Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, major writers in th.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 264 pages)
ISBN:1587291819
9781587291814

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