Coyote at large
Subtitle: humor in American nature writing
By: Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Nature in literature.; Natural history -- United States -- Historiography.; American wit and humor -- History and criticism.; Comic, The, in literature.; Tricksters in literature.
Description: "Coyote at Large shatters the misconception that nature writing - works that seem limited to expressing conventional awe, reverence, piety, and wonder - is a humorless genre. In this important and engaging study, Edward Abbey, Louise Erdrich, Wendell Berry, and Rachel Carson, whom the author dubs "comic moralists," command center stage.

The trickster-coyote of Native American mythology appears in playful interludes, roaming at large through the prose and poetry of Simon Ortiz, Ursula Le Guin, Sally Carrighar, and Gary Snyder, providing a recurring analog for how comedy and humor show themselves in traditional and contemporary American nature writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.