Writing for an Endangered World : Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond / Lawrence Buell.
Buell, Lawrence, author.
2009
PS169.E25 B84 2001eb
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Title Writing for an Endangered World : Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond / Lawrence Buell.
Author Buell, Lawrence, author.
ISBN 9780674029057
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029057
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2003
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674029057 doi
Call Number PS169.E25 B84 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/355
Summary The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, his book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.Reviews of this book: Author of the widely influential The Environmental Imagination, Buell is a major figure in contemporary ecocriticism. Here, in broadening the scope of his earlier book, Buell blurs the usual distinction between natural and built environments. Exploring how a variety of texts imagine urban, rural, ocean, and desert places, he convincingly argues that literary imagination is powerfully shaped by--and shapes--a single, complex environment that is both found and constructed.Buell's book is important: it points ecocriticism in profoundly new and welcome directions.--W. Conlogue, Choice
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Toxic Discourse
2. The Place of Place
3. Flâneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City
4. Discourses of Determinism
5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold
6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales
7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice
8. Watershed Aesthetics
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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