The Nature Essay : Ecocritical Explorations.

Intro -- The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Why the Nature Essay? -- 2 Nature Writing Revisited: Method and Scope of This Study -- 3 Roaming in an Interdisciplinary Field: Textual Corpus -- 4 Outline of Content -- 1 The Nature Essay and Genre -- 1 Aspects of the Essay: Characteristics of Form and Function -- 1.1 The Arrival of the Nature Essay around 1800 -- 2 Ways of Knowing and Making Sense of Nature -- 2.1 Reflection, Description, Introspection - Communication of Knowledge in the Nature Essay -- 2.2 Epistemes: Encyclopaedic-Scientific, Metaphysical-Spiritual, Ethical -- 2 "The Butterfly Collector": The Encyclopaedic-Scientific Episteme -- 1 The Aesthetics of Collecting and Connecting in Alexander von Humboldt's Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse and Ernst Jünger's Subtile Jagden -- 1.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse -- 1.2 Ernst Jünger, Subtile Jagden -- 2 Measuring and Mapping Nature in the Nineteenth Century: Henry David Thoreau's the Pond in Winter and Alexander von Humboldt's Über die Steppen und Wüsten -- 2.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Über die Steppen und Wüsten -- 2.2 Henry David Thoreau's Survey of Walden Pond -- 3 Data Prose - Contemporary Nature Essay Writing: Eliot Weinberger's Naked Mole-Rats, David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, and Andreas Martin Widmann's Mind Gardens -- 3.1 Eliot Weinberger, Naked Mole-Rats -- 3.2 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster -- 3.3 The Natural World as Seen on Google: Andreas Martin Widmann, Mind Gardens -- 3 "Mother Nature's Son": The Metaphysical-Spiritual Episteme -- 1 Epiphanic Moments and Revelations: J.A. Baker's the Peregrine and Kathleen Jamie's Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes -- 1.1 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine -- 1.2 Kathleen Jamie, Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes.

2 The Dying Animal: Unsettling Human-Insect Relations through Elegy and Irony in Virginia Woolf's the Death of the Moth and Robert Musil's Das Fliegenpapier -- 2.1 Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth -- 2.2 Robert Musil, Das Fliegenpapier -- 3 Tales of Transformation and Experience: Thoreau's Walden and Andreas Maier and Christine Büchner's Bullau -- 3.1 Henry David Thoreau, Walden -- 3.2 Andreas Maier and Christine Büchner, Bullau. Versuch über Natur -- 4 "Animal Farm": The Ethical Episteme - Animal Ethics, Stories of Decline, and Writing Entangled Agencies -- 1 Aesthetics of Empathy and Shock: Animal Ethics -- 2 Stories of Decline: The Apocalypse Template -- 3 Decentred Perspectives: Writing Entangled Agencies -- Conclusion: Paradigm Shifts in the Nature Essay -- 1 Panoramic Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations Simone Schröder offers the first extended account of the nature essay. Her ecocritical readings of essays engage with the genre's central epistemological and poetic paradigms, revealing its unique capacity to serve as a platform for environmental discourse.

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