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Toward a Literary Ecology
Places and Spaces in American Literature
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2013
Summary
Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly to disciplines such as the biological sciences, human geography, or philosophy. Even so, the field of ecocriticism has yet to clearly articulate its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature.
In Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature,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.
Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, Toward a Literary Ecology suggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world.
This volume also offers a means of analyzing representations of people in places within the realm of an historical, cultural, and geographically bounded yet diverse American literature. Intended for students of literature and ecology, this collection will also appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies, philosophy, biology, history, anthropology, and other related disciplines.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-9197-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-9198-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
207
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The Potential and Limitations of Interactivity in Gary Snyder’s Urban Literary Ecology No access
2 Geographies of Belonging in the Work of Native American Poets No access
3 Urban Ecology in Gary Snyder’s “Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads” and “Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin” No access
4 Semiotic Mapping in Urban Fiction as a Model of Literary Ecology No access
5 Literary Ecology and the City No access
6 Apocalyptic? No, Georgic! No access
7 Toxic Testimony in Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge and Chip Ward’s Canaries on the Rim No access
8 Exploring Literary Ecology of Place in “New” Nature Writing No access
9 Metaphors of Measurement: Indirection and the Sublime No access
Works Cited No access Pages 183 - 196
Index No access Pages 197 - 204
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 205 - 207
