Nature and the environment
By: editor, Scott Slovic
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781429837385; 9781429837866
Subjects: Environmentalism in literature; Ecology in literature; Environmental literature; Environmental protection in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Nature in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Critical contexts. Thoreau and American environmentalism: a study in critical reception / Richard J. Schneider; title: Pastoral, Anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral as reading strategies / Terry Gifford; title: Environmental wisdom in two Mexican American novels: an ecocritical reading of And the Earth did not devour him and Bless me / Priscilla Solis Ybarra; title: Original nature: Buddhism and American nature writing / David Landis Barnhill; title: Critical readings. Wordsworth as environmental "nature" writer / Ashton Nichols; title: Walt Whitman, the ecological poet / Jimmie Killingsworth; title: The return to the primitive: evolution, atavism, and socialism in Jack London's The call of the wild / Tina Gianquitto; title: Cultivation, progress, or conservation: conflicting impulses in Willa Cather's O pioneers! and A lost lady / Matthias Schubnell; title: The need of being versed in natural things: Robert Frost and nature / Robert Bernard Hass; title: Natural history in Hemingway's The old man and the sea and other works / Bert Bender; title: John Steinbeck's environmental evolution / Brian Railsback; title: Robinson Jeffers, environmental consciousness, and the poetics of nature / David J. Rothman; title: "Call me a ranger": Edward Abbey and the exploratory voice of Desert solitaire / David Copland Morris; title: Loyalty to place and land stewardship as ecological good work in Wendell Berry's The memory of Old Jack / Wes Berry; title: Reciprocal spirituality: human/animal interface in Linda Hogan's multiple genres / Barbara J. Cook; title: Prodigal summer: a narrative ecosystem / Priscilla Leder; title: A natural alliance: blending nature literature and outdoor education in the integrated outdoor program / Jeff Hess.