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Coming into Contact : Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820336688
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coming into ContactDDC classification:
  • 810.9/355
LOC classification:
  • PS169.E25 C66 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking of Our Life in Nature -- Part 1. Who Are We? Where Are We? Exploring the Boundaries of Ecocriticism -- Of Swamp Dragons: Mud, Megalopolis, and a Future for Ecocriticism -- Challenging the Confines: Haiku from the Prison Camps -- Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism -- To Name Is to Claim, or Remembering Place: Native American Writers Reclaim the Northeast -- Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide -- Part 2. The Solid Earth! The Actual World! Environmental Discourse and Practice -- Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design -- A Mosaic of Landscapes: Ecological Restoration and the Work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko -- Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature -- Facing the True Costs of Living: Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on Dams and Writing -- Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job: Notes toward a Postnatural Ecocriticism -- Part 3. Contact! Contact! Interdisciplinary Connections -- Seeking Common Ground: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities -- Mindless Fools and Leaves That Run: Subjectivity, Politics, and Myth in Scientific Nomenclature -- Reading after Darwin: A Prospectus -- Of Spiders, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: Domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature -- The Great, Shaggy Barbaric Earth: Geological Writings of John Burroughs -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This collection of sixteen previously unpublished ecocriticism essays explores some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, and the urbanized Northeast.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking of Our Life in Nature -- Part 1. Who Are We? Where Are We? Exploring the Boundaries of Ecocriticism -- Of Swamp Dragons: Mud, Megalopolis, and a Future for Ecocriticism -- Challenging the Confines: Haiku from the Prison Camps -- Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism -- To Name Is to Claim, or Remembering Place: Native American Writers Reclaim the Northeast -- Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide -- Part 2. The Solid Earth! The Actual World! Environmental Discourse and Practice -- Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design -- A Mosaic of Landscapes: Ecological Restoration and the Work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko -- Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature -- Facing the True Costs of Living: Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on Dams and Writing -- Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job: Notes toward a Postnatural Ecocriticism -- Part 3. Contact! Contact! Interdisciplinary Connections -- Seeking Common Ground: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities -- Mindless Fools and Leaves That Run: Subjectivity, Politics, and Myth in Scientific Nomenclature -- Reading after Darwin: A Prospectus -- Of Spiders, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: Domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature -- The Great, Shaggy Barbaric Earth: Geological Writings of John Burroughs -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This collection of sixteen previously unpublished ecocriticism essays explores some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, and the urbanized Northeast.

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