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The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad
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2022
Summary
American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads—unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this “Green Jeremiad” tradition not only warn of material threats to life’s flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2405-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2406-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
146
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Ancient Jeremiah’s New World Progeny No access Pages 13 - 32
Toward the Jeremiad Bloom of Silent Spring No access Pages 33 - 54
From the Blustery Dawn of Earth Day to Earth First! No access Pages 55 - 76
Prophesying the End of Nature No access Pages 77 - 100
Saving Truths of the New “Cli-Fi” Jeremiad No access Pages 101 - 128
Conclusion No access Pages 129 - 134
Bibliography No access Pages 135 - 140
Index No access Pages 141 - 144
About the Author No access Pages 145 - 146
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