Literature of Nature: An International SourcebookPatrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato Taylor & Francis, 1998 - 490 pages Literature of Nature is a referenc ework that explores the diversity of genres, modes, and orientations of literary representations of nature and of human interaction with the rest of the natural world. Comprising 65 essays, Literature of Nature is organized into five geographic sections: the United States and Canada; Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Africa and the Arab world; and Latin America. A sixth section is devoted to Topics, Genres, Theory, and Other Arts. The diversity and international scope of the essays are represented in a wide variety of chapter formats: contributors were encouraged to adopt layouts most appropriate to their subjects, with a stylistic diversity modeling natural diverstiy. Literature of Nature is meant to appeal to a broad range of users, including students, librarians, and the general reader interested in knowing more about such literature. At the same time scholars of literature will find the volume of great interest and the bibliographies especially useful. |
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Contents
From Discovery to 1850 | 3 |
Early American Natural Histories | 13 |
Representations of the American Great Plains | 26 |
The Objectivists | 32 |
The World of the Beats and Others | 45 |
Writers of the Adirondacks | 52 |
Four Case Studies in Southern Nature Writing from Virginias | 59 |
Literary Nonfiction Writing of the American Desert | 70 |
Japan | 277 |
Fiction Nonfiction | 284 |
The Conservation Movement and Its Literature in Japan | 290 |
China | 300 |
India | 315 |
War and Environment in African Literature | 327 |
Long Live the Fresh Air Long Live Environmental Culture | 337 |
Ecological Postcolonialism in African Womens Literature | 344 |
Womens Resistance in the Desert West | 77 |
Spiritual Transformations in American | 84 |
North Woods Writers | 98 |
Haikus Aesthetics of Awareness | 116 |
Canadian Environmental Writing | 130 |
England | 149 |
The Idea of Nature in English Poetry | 166 |
Scotland | 182 |
France | 200 |
Germany | 203 |
Malta | 212 |
Romania | 218 |
Russia | 224 |
The Theme of Nature in Russian Theater | 236 |
Spain | 248 |
Australia | 259 |
Australia and New Zealand | 269 |
Symblic and Intersubjective Representations in Arab Environmental Writing | 350 |
Brazil | 359 |
The Caribbean | 366 |
Roberto FornsBroggi | 374 |
500 Years of Writing the Amazon | 385 |
Antarctic Literature | 395 |
A CrossCultural Study | 403 |
Science Fiction as Environmental Literature | 409 |
National Landscapes | 415 |
Green Cultural Studies | 422 |
Speaking for Nature | 429 |
Exploring Contemporary Travelers | 440 |
The Essential Utility of the Literature | 447 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 455 |
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References to this book
Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia Daniel Patterson No preview available - 2007 |