Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives [[electronic resource] ] : Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada / / by K. Crane
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| Autore: |
Crane K
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| Titolo: |
Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives [[electronic resource] ] : Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada / / by K. Crane
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.8032 |
| 820.9/994 | |
| 820.9994 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature |
| Literature—Philosophy | |
| Culture—Study and teaching | |
| Literature, Modern—20th century | |
| Environment | |
| Postcolonial/World Literature | |
| Literary Theory | |
| Cultural Theory | |
| Cultural and Media Studies, general | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Environment, general | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wilderness as Projection: Reading Practices and Aritha van Herk's Places Far from Ellesmere; 2 Wilderness as Liminal Space: Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Problems of the Map; 3 Wilderness Beyond Frontiers: Matrices of Belonging in Kim Mahood's Craft for a Dry Lake; 4 Wilderness Values (I): Aesthetic and Scientific Rhetoric in Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon; 5 Wilderness Values (II): Protection and Exploitation in Julia Leigh's The Hunter; 6 Wilderness Survival: Future Natures in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Epilogue |
| NotesWorks Cited; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives |
| ISBN: | 1-283-94710-2 |
| 1-137-00079-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786065203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment