Coming into contact [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in ecocritical theory and practice / / edited by Annie Merrill Ingram ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/355
• Soggetto topico: Ecology in literature; American literature - History and criticism; Environmental literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Human ecology in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Nature in literature; Ecocriticism
• Altri autori: IngramAnnie Merrill <1961->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism -- Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi -- Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie -- Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi -- To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger -- Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin -- ; Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice -- Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren -- A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla -- Apocalyptic or precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M. Patrick -- Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen --Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel -- ; Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections -- Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls -- Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat -- Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen -- Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto --The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coming into contact
• ISBN: 1-282-72617-X; 9786612726170; 0-8203-3668-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781180203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II