For love of the world [[electronic resource] ] : essays on nature writers / / Sherman Paul

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778726703321
• Autore: Paul Sherman
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1992
• ISBN: 1-58729-181-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9; 810.9/36; 810.936
• Soggetti: American literature - History and criticism; Natural history - United States - Historiography; Nature in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Thoreau; Thinking with Thoreau; From Walden Out; Three Reviews; Leopold; The Husbandry of the Wild; Aldo Leopold's Counter-Friction; Lopez; Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez; Beston; Coming Home to the World: Another Journal for Henry Beston; Nelson; The Education of a Hunter: Reading Richard Nelson; A Letter from Richard Nelson; Eiseley; Back and Down: Loren Eiseley's Immense Journey; Muir; Muir's Self-Authorizings
• Sommario/riassunto: Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers-who may be something of all three-address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos.In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it.In For Love of the World Sherman Paul considers Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, major writers in th