Toward a literary ecology [electronic resource] : places and spaces in American literature / edited by Karen E. Waldron, Rob Friedman.
2013
PS163 .T69 2013eb
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Title
Toward a literary ecology [electronic resource] : places and spaces in American literature / edited by Karen E. Waldron, Rob Friedman.
ISBN
9780810891982 (electronic book)
9780810891975
9780810891975
Publication Details
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxix, 207 p.)
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PS163 .T69 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/36
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Waldron, Karen E., 1953-
Friedman, Rob, 1955-
Friedman, Rob, 1955-
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. Ecological identities
pt. 2. Ecological cityscapes
pt. 3. Ecological rhetoric.
pt. 2. Ecological cityscapes
pt. 3. Ecological rhetoric.