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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul, Sherman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nature > Dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Themes, motifs.
Natuur.
Nature in literature.
Natural history literature.
Natural history > Historiography.
American literature.
NATURE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Nature dans la litterature.
Sciences naturelles > Documentation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Sciences naturelles > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Natural history literature > United States > History.
Natural history > United States > Historiography.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Thoreau
  • Thinking with Thoreau
  • From Walden out
  • Three reviews
  • Leopold
  • The husbandry of the wild
  • Aldo Leopold's counter-friction
  • Lopez
  • Making the turn: rereading Barry Lopez
  • Beston
  • Coming home to the world: another journal for Henry Beston
  • Nelson
  • The education of a hunter: reading Richard Nelson
  • A letter from Richard Nelson
  • Eiseley
  • Back and down: Loren Eiseley's Immense journey
  • Muir
  • Muir's self-authorizings.

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