LEADER 05015nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9910454876403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02905-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029057 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805492 035 $a(OCoLC)449919057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10326099 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488548 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307261 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488548 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450887 035 $a(PQKB)10047986 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000275244 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12105498 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275244 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10330445 035 $a(PQKB)11642047 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300555 035 $a(DE-B1597)457571 035 $a(OCoLC)1043613461 035 $a(OCoLC)979588114 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029057 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326099 035 $a(OCoLC)923111816 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805492 100 $a20000928d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting for an endangered world$b[electronic resource] $eliterature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond /$fLawrence Buell 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00449-3 311 $a0-674-01232-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Toxic Discourse --$t2. The Place of Place --$t3. Flâneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City --$t4. Discourses of Determinism --$t5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold --$t6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales --$t7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice --$t8. Watershed Aesthetics --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for an ecocriticism now reaching full power, and does so in remarkably clear and concrete ways. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment--whether built or natural--as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, his book reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape.Reviews of this book: Author of the widely influential The Environmental Imagination, Buell is a major figure in contemporary ecocriticism. Here, in broadening the scope of his earlier book, Buell blurs the usual distinction between natural and built environments. Exploring how a variety of texts imagine urban, rural, ocean, and desert places, he convincingly argues that literary imagination is powerfully shaped by--and shapes--a single, complex environment that is both found and constructed...Buell's book is important: it points ecocriticism in profoundly new and welcome directions.--W. Conlogue, Choice 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental protection in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental policy in literature 606 $aNature conservation in literature 606 $aLandscapes in literature 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aNature in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy in literature. 615 0$aNature conservation in literature. 615 0$aLandscapes in literature. 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 686 $aHR 1701$2rvk 700 $aBuell$b Lawrence$0592478 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454876403321 996 $aWriting for an Endangered world$91001939 997 $aUNINA