Writing for an Endangered World : : Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond / / Lawrence Buell.
The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on in...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Toxic Discourse
- 2. The Place of Place
- 3. Flâneur’s Progress: Reinhabiting the City
- 4. Discourses of Determinism
- 5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold
- 6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales
- 7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice
- 8. Watershed Aesthetics
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index