Natural state [[electronic resource] ] : a literary anthology of California nature writing / / selected and edited by Steven Gilbar ; with a foreword by David Brower

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785979703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998
• ISBN: 1-283-64631-5; 0-520-92033-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GilbarSteven
• Disciplina: 508.794
• Soggetti: Natural history - California; Nature
• 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 (p. 369-373).
• Nota di contenuto: Natural State -- Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CREATION -- Grampa Ramsey and the Great Canyon -- THE MOUNTAINS -- An Elk Hunt -- Ramblings in Yosemite -- Lake Tahoe -- Climbing Matterhorn Peak -- A Mount for All Seasons -- Trumpets of Light -- The Fourth Dimension -- Climbing Half Dome -- THE HILLS AND VALLEYS -- Into the Valley -- The Sea Fogs -- On Sonoma Mountain -- Flight -- Spirits of the Valley -- A Reflection on White Geese -- In Condor Country -- Winter's Fog -- A Vanishing Land -- Remnants -- THE DESERT -- Desert Walking -- Death Valley -- Overlooking Carrizo Gorge -- The Palms in Our Hands -- THE COAST -- Gaviota Coast Trails -- Where the Mountains Meet the Sea -- Big Sur -- The Sundown Sea -- A Certain Moment -- Tapping the Source -- Santa Rosa -- Lost Coast -- EARTH, WIND, RAIN, AND FIRE -- Continental Drift -- The San Andreas Discrepancy -- A Wind-Storm in the Forest -- The Santa Ana -- Nurslings of the Sky -- The Storm -- After the Fire -- Afterword Coming into the Watershed -- FURTHER READING -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers-be they naturalists or armchair explorers-will find themselves transported to ; California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction. As a prelude to the collection, editor Steven Gilbar presents two California Indian creation myths, one a Cahto narrative and the other an A-juma-wi story as told by Darryl Babe Wilson. Familiar names appear in these pages-John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich-but less familiar writers such as Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney are also included. Among the gems in this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on climbing Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow geese migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on Death Valley, Henry Miller on Big Sur, and Joan Didion on the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword reflects the spirit of environmentalism that runs throughout the book. Natural State also reveals the many changes to California's landscape that have occurred in geological time and in human terms. More than a book of "nature writing," this book is superb writing about nature.

Catholic literature and film : incarnational love and suffering / / Nancy Enright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798951903321
• Autore: Enright Nancy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-4985-4167-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 pages)
• Disciplina: 808.8385
• Soggetti: Romance fiction; Love in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis: suffering and love in the church of St. Peter -- Graham Greene's The End of the Affair: the sanctity of grace -- Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons: Thomas More and self-identity -- Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: the sources of pain and the beginnings of love -- Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit: text and films, "eucatastrophe" and "enchantment" -- Victor Hugo's Les Miserables: love and redemption of the suffering poor -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Catholic Literature and Film: Incarnational Love and Suffering is meant to be considered as a work of literary criticism, not film adaptation studies. In it, the author explores six literary works dealing with Catholic themes and the film versions of these works. The discussion of the films is at the service of analyzing the texts. Underlying all the discussions is an incarnational, sacramental view of the texts, which links to my interpretation of the film versions of them. Catholic and actually any Christian interpretation of literature or film or any other art form is rooted in an iconic and sacramental understanding of imagery as a means of conveying the sacred. Catholic spirituality lends itself to this sort of approach, as it is deeply rooted in the ability to see sacred things through physical means. A key sub-theme is romantic love in connection with salvation, which Charles Williams, one of the "Inklings" ; (the group of British writers, including J.R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, who met and discussed literature and theology), calls "the theology of romantic love," as well as the sub-themes of redemptive suffering, and grace. My interest in the book is not an analysis of cinematography, per se, but on the films as vehicles for religious ideas. What makes this approach unique is that it doesn't deal with only faith and film, as Peter Frazer does very well in his book Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film, for example; it also goes beyond the realm of strict literary criticism in its tackling of how religiously oriented works of literature are affected by the transformation into film. --Amazon.com