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Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001Description: viii, 365 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674004493
  • 0674012321
  • 9780674004498
  • 9780674012325
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Writing for an endangered world.LOC classification:
  • PS169 .E25 B84 2001
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics.
Summary: 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, this book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS169 .E25 B84 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001532539

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-340) and index.

Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics.

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, this book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.

Also issued online.

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