Scott Slovic

Broschiertes Buch

Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility

Beschreibung

In Going Away to Think, ecocritic Scott Slovic offers a selection of seventeen essays that include travel narratives, meditations on the social role of ecological literary criticism, responses to socially engaged literary and scholarly texts, and demonstrations of the author's own forays into literary activism.

Autor

Scott Slovic is a professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The author, editor, or coeditor of many books, his research specialties include American environmental literature, the relation between narrative discourse and environmental values, autobiography and environmental experience, and environmental rhetoric. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University (1983) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University (1986, 1990). He was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment since 1995.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780874177565
• ISBN-10: 0874177561
• Artikelnr.: 24577815