Gebundenes Buch

Toward a Literary Ecology

Places and Spaces in American Literature

Herausgeber: Waldron, Karen E.; Friedman, Rob

Beschreibung

In this book,editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments, and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in "new" nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, this booksuggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world.

Autor

Karen E. Waldron is Lisa Stewart Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She has published articles on multiple American writers, ranging from William Faulkner to Leslie Marmon Silko. Robert Friedman teaches at the University of Washington Tacoma, where he is director of the Institute of Technology. He is the author of Collaborative Learning Systems: A Case Study (2008) and Hawthorne's Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry (2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780810891975
• ISBN-10: 0810891972
• Artikelnr.: 37664409