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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456841503321

Titolo

Coming into contact [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in ecocritical theory and practice / / edited by Annie Merrill Ingram ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-72617-X

9786612726170

0-8203-3668-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IngramAnnie Merrill <1961->

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

Ecology in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Environmental literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Human ecology in literature

Environmental protection in literature

Nature in literature

Ecocriticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism -- Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi -- Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie -- Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi -- To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger -- Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin -- ; Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice -- Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren -- A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla -- Apocalyptic or precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M.



Patrick -- Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen --Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel -- ; Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections -- Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls -- Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat -- Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen -- Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto --The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker.