K. Crane

Gebundenes Buch

Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives

Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

KYLIE CRANE is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Produktdetails

• Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-00078-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781137000781
• ISBN-10: 1137000783
• Artikelnr.: 35681949

Rezensionen

"Quite expansive and thought-provoking . . . Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing