Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /
Buell, Lawrence.
Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell. - viii, 365 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-340) and index.
Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics.
Offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, this book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.
0674004493 0674012321 9780674004498 9780674012325
00049796
American literature--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.
Environmental policy in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Nature in literature.
PS169 .E25 / B84 2001
Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell. - viii, 365 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-340) and index.
Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics.
Offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, this book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.
0674004493 0674012321 9780674004498 9780674012325
00049796
American literature--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.
Environmental policy in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Nature in literature.
PS169 .E25 / B84 2001