Writing for an Endangered World
Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond
by Lawrence Buell
"Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. 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, Buell reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
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American literature, Ecology in literature, English literature, Environmental policy in literature, Environmental protection in literature, History and criticism, Landscape in literature, Nature conservation in literature, Nature in literature, Environnement, Politique gouvernementale dans la littérature, Literatur, Letterkunde, American, General, Amerikaans, Umweltschutz, Landscapes in literature, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Ecologie, LITERARY CRITICISM, Ökologie, Littérature anglaise, Natur, American literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism| Edition | Availability |
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Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U. S. and Beyond
2009, Harvard University Press
in English
0674029054 9780674029057
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Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond
September 15, 2003, Belknap Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0674012321 9780674012325
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Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, & Environment in the U. S. & Beyond.
2001, Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
0674004493 9780674004498
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Writing for an endangered world: literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond
2001, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English
0674004493 9780674004498
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