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1 online resource (173 pages) |
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Studies in Environmental Humanities |
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Studies in environmental humanities.
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| Contents |
Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 The World Outside in (Literature); 2 American Ecocriticism and the Ethics of Commitment; 3 Urban Ambivalences and Narrative Domains in Defoe's Novels; 4 Thoreau's Environmental Humanism; 5 Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically?; 6 Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir's Post-Mortem Radicalism; 7 John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert |
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8 Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky9 Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood; 10 On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony; Index |
| Summary |
Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature offers analyses of the diverse ways in which literature helps us escape the rigid frames of commonly assumed worldviews and modes of seeing. Literary works are endowed with a capacity not only to reflect or to mediate, but to resist our environment, and thus to affect and transform our relation to the physical world. Each essay points to the way literature shapes the human perception of environment as intellectual adventures and forays that draw upon a number of historical, aesthetic, philosophical and phenomenological stances |
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Print version record |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Nature in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Human ecology in literature
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Nature in literature
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Literatur
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Umweltbewusstsein
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Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004324831 |
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9004324836 |
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