Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature

Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature
ISBN-10
0810891980
ISBN-13
9780810891982
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2013-07-29
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Authors
Karen E. Waldron, Rob Friedman

Description

In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments, and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in “new” nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, this book suggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world.

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