Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell.

By:

Buell, Lawrence

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001Description: viii, 365 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0674004493
0674012321
9780674004498
9780674012325

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Writing for an endangered world.LOC classification:

PS169 .E25 B84 2001

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-340) and index.

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.

Also issued online.