03265nam 2200661 a 450 991096420510332120251117115859.01-60781-810-8(CKB)1000000000001797(OCoLC)49797208(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001302(SSID)ssj0000278292(PQKBManifestationID)11954883(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278292(PQKBWorkID)10246188(PQKB)10248335(MiAaPQ)EBC3571931(Au-PeEL)EBL3571931(CaPaEBR)ebr2001302(BIP)35664547(BIP)6435704(EXLCZ)99100000000000179720000510d2000 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCoyote at large humor in American nature writing /Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer1st ed.Salt Lake City University of Utah Pressc20001 online resource (250 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-87480-664-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.Front -- CONTENTS -- Laying the Foundation for Humor in Nature Writing -- Edward Abbey -- Louise Erdrich -- Wendell Berry -- Rachel Carson -- Making Sense of Humor in North America.Coyote at large shatters the misconception that nature writing -- works that seem limited to expressing conventional awe, reverence, piety and wonder -- is a humorless genre. In this important and surprising book, Katrina Peiffer reveals and explores the comedy and humor long overlooked in traditional and contemporary environmental literature. Edward Abbey, Louise Erdrich, Wendell Berry, and Rachel Carson, whom the author dubs "comic moralists", command center stage in this study. But in playful textual interludes, the trickster-coyote of Native American mythology appears in the wings, roaming at large through the prose and poetry of Simon Ortiz, Ursula Le Guin, Sally Carrighar, and Gary Snyder, providing a recurring analog for how comedy and humor show themselves in the larger canon of American nature writing. Lively writing coupled with a delightfully wiley approach make Coyote at Large an engaging and enlightening read for ecocritics as well as students of American literature.American literatureHistory and criticismNature in literatureNatural historyUnited StatesHistoriographyAmerican wit and humorHistory and criticismComic, The, in literatureTricksters in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Nature in literature.Natural historyHistoriography.American wit and humorHistory and criticism.Comic, The, in literature.Tricksters in literature.810.9/36Peiffer Katrina Schimmoeller1969-1864555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964205103321Coyote at large4471402UNINA