Toward a literary ecology
Subtitle: places and spaces in American literature
By: edited by Karen E. Waldron and Rob Friedman
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780810891975; 9780810891982
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Ecocriticism; Ecology in literature; Geography in literature
Description: In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in "new nature" writing. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.