LEADER 03265nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910964205103321 005 20251117115859.0 010 $a1-60781-810-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001797 035 $a(OCoLC)49797208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954883 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246188 035 $a(PQKB)10248335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571931 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571931 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2001302 035 $a(BIP)35664547 035 $a(BIP)6435704 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001797 100 $a20000510d2000 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCoyote at large $ehumor in American nature writing /$fKatrina Schimmoeller Peiffer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSalt Lake City $cUniversity of Utah Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-87480-664-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index. 327 $aFront -- CONTENTS -- Laying the Foundation for Humor in Nature Writing -- Edward Abbey -- Louise Erdrich -- Wendell Berry -- Rachel Carson -- Making Sense of Humor in North America. 330 $aCoyote 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aNatural history$zUnited States$xHistoriography 606 $aAmerican wit and humor$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComic, The, in literature 606 $aTricksters in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aNatural history$xHistoriography. 615 0$aAmerican wit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComic, The, in literature. 615 0$aTricksters in literature. 676 $a810.9/36 700 $aPeiffer$b Katrina Schimmoeller$f1969-$01864555 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964205103321 996 $aCoyote at large$94471402 997 $aUNINA