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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838397603321

Titolo

Coyote in the maze [[electronic resource] ] : tracking Edward Abbey in a world of words / / edited by Peter Quigley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c1998

ISBN

1-60781-800-0

0-585-11241-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QuigleyPeter <1951->

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Environmental protection in literature

Environmental policy in literature

Deserts in literature

Nature in literature

West (U.S.) In literature

Utah In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Contents -- Heraclitean Fire, Bakhtinian Laughter, and the Limits of Literary Judgment -- The Roots of Abbey's Social Critique -- Magpie -- "I'm a humanist" -- Who Is the Lone Ranger? -- Nativity, Domesticity, and Exile in Edward Abbey's "One True Home" -- Rage against the Machine -- Edward Abbey's Inadvertent Postmodernism -- Abbey as Anarchist -- "Getting the Desert into a Book" -- Surviving Doom and Gloom -- Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Edward Abbey -- Edward Abbey's Cow -- Edward Abbey and Gender -- The Life of the Author -- From the Banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah -- Biocentrism and Green Existentialism -- The Politics and Aesthetics of a Hopeful Anarchism -- The Politics of Leisure.