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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461397603321

Titolo

Artifacts & illuminations [[electronic resource] ] : critical essays on Loren Eiseley / / edited and with an introduction by Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8032-4049-X

1-280-68766-5

9786613664600

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LynchTom <1955->

MaherSusan Naramore

Disciplina

818/.5409

Soggetti

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

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. " The Bay of Broken Things"; 2. " Never Going to Cease My Wandering"; 3. " The Places Below"; 4. Unearthing Urban Nature; 5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay; 6. " The Borders between Us"; 7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life; 8. Artifact and Idea; 9. The Spirit of Synecdoche; 10. In a Dark Wood; 11. Emerson and Eiseley; 12. Epic Narratives of Evolution; 13. Eiseley and Jung; 14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time.As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Ar