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Explorations in Ecocriticism
Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design
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2015
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A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize its big dam projects. Previously, no one has written about the large art collection that toured the nation under the auspices of the Smithsonian in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Reclamation was under fire and new environmental regulations were becoming law. Another chapter, “An Iconography of Sabotage,” previously published in France as part of a Paris symposium, looks at the pictorial dimension of saboteurs throughout American history, with a special emphasis on the IWW and Earth First! The book draws extensively on the social sciences. Ecology and environment are treated too often as technical topics that go over the heads of lay readers. Many Americans care about air and water quality, the extinction of species, and the unfortunate politicization of science. But they also find the discourse daunting, the details exceedingly complex. By leavening such heavy subjects with current events, Explorations in Ecocriticism makes environmental issues accessible to lay readers and offers routes to sustainability in the United States today.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9498-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9499-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
237
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter One: Edging Toward Ecology in Early American Natural History No access Pages 7 - 26
Chapter Two: Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda No access Pages 27 - 40
Chapter Three: West of Winthrop No access Pages 41 - 58
Chapter Four: An Iconography of Sabotage No access Pages 59 - 92
Chapter Five: Rage Against the Machine No access Pages 93 - 100
Chapter Six: Overtures to Sublimity No access Pages 101 - 134
Chapter Seven: American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement No access Pages 135 - 154
Chapter Eight: Greening the Dramatic Canon No access Pages 155 - 168
Chapter Nine: Gifts and Misgivings in Place No access Pages 169 - 184
Chapter Ten: Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition No access Pages 185 - 202
