Reconnecting with John Muir
Subtitle: essays in post-pastoral practice
By: Terry Gifford.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780820327969
Subjects: Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Appreciation -- United States.; Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Influence.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Nature in literature.; Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism.; Mountaineering in literature.; Ecocriticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Keeping faith with the source; title: Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral; title: Muir's multiple discourses; title: Teaching environmentalism through writing; title: Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin; title: Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic; title: Walking into narrative scholarship; title: Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape; title: Tests of character in Cold Mountain; title: Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer; title: Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature; title: Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.