Literature, Nature, and Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature, Nature, and Other write by Patrick D. Murphy. This book was released on 1995-02-01. Literature, Nature, and Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book first establishes a theoretical framework for conceptualizing environmental analysis. It then develops a conception of environmental literature with an emphasis on works by women, arguing for the need to reconceptualize woman/nature and nature/culture associations, and critiquing the problems of male poetic sex-typing of the planet. Murphy also elaborates on specific works and authors, with an emphasis on literary texts by Hampl, Harjo, Snyder, and Le Guin. Additionally, he treats issues of canon and pedagogy, as well as the possibility of agency in a postmodern era. Ranging across diverse fields and incorporating cultural studies, post-structuralist literary theory, and ecofeminist philosophy, Literature, Nature, and Other both defines and critiques the current terrains of literary ecocriticism and nature writing/environmental literature. Literary examples are drawn from fiction, poetry, and prose, including postmodern metanarratives and works by Native Americans and Chicanas.
Literature and Nature
Literature and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and Nature write by Bridget Keegan. This book was released on 2001. Literature and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature and Nature exposes students to the tremendous diversity of literacy responses to the physical environment. The selections cover four centuries of the best nature writing produced in Britain and America from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The book includes contributions by writers from all walks of life - men and women of different races, classes and nationalities, each of whom adds a unique perspective to our understanding of the literary representation of the natural world. Contents include a variety of literary forms, including poems, short stories, non-fiction essays, travel narratives, and excerpts from novels. These varied selections reveal how concern for the environment cuts across differences of gender, social class, education, religion, race, and ethnicity. Literature and Nature provides a wide range of texts, from both well-known and less-familiar writers, and it offers students a broad base of knowledge from which to reflect and respond.
Literature and the Environment
Literature and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and the Environment write by George Hart. This book was released on 2004-07-30. Literature and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The phrase literature and environment only achieved popularity in recent decades, yet writers dating back to the explorers of the 1500s—and later such 19th-century Romanticists as Thoreau—have long been addressing environmental issues through literary expression. This volume introduces students and educators to the field by tracing the evolution of environmental writing in the United States. Chapters written by distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on important environmental issues, guiding readers through 11 carefully selected literary works. Each chapter provides brief biographical information on the author, discussions of the work's structural, thematic, and stylistic components, and insights into the historical context that relates the work to relevant environmental issues. Each chapter concludes with information on works cited. The analyzed works cover a wide spectrum of literature and span nearly 100 years. Included are early writings, such as Mary Austin's 1903 The Land of Little Rain, and famous groundbreaking works, such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) and Gary Snyder's Turtle Island (1974). Also included are frequently assigned works of special interest to students, such as The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), The Earthsea Trilogy (1977), and Ceremony (1977). A list of selected further suggested readings completes the volume. Students of literature, as well as educators looking for new ways to present social issues, will find many ideas and much inspiration in this volume.
Feminist Ecocriticism
Feminist Ecocriticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Ecocriticism write by Douglas A. Vakoch. This book was released on 2012. Feminist Ecocriticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.
Literature of Nature
Literature of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature of Nature write by Patrick D. Murphy. This book was released on 1998. Literature of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
