num_pages: 328
description: In his controversial 1998 book  Fiber , Rick Bass introduced a troubling dilemma of the literary artist and How can any nature writer engage in celebration of the natural world in the face of environmental degradation? Perhaps, Bass speculated, the "activist is the artist's ashes," the identity that emerges finally from charred remains of a "pure" devotion to the art of nature writing. In  The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass , the first comprehensive collection of literary criticism to address Bass's work, fifteen scholars elucidate the development of social, political, and personal issues in Bass’s fiction and nonfiction.
language: English
title: Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass
titlecomplete: Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass
ratings_count: 4
publisher: University of Utah Press