Research Catalog

Title

Coyote in the maze : tracking Edward Abbey in a world of words / edited by Peter Quigley.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Quigley, Peter, 1951-

Description

vi, 343 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• West (U.S.) > In literature
• Utah > In literature
• Environmental protection in literature
• Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
• Nature in literature
• Deserts in literature
• Environmental policy in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Heraclitean Fire, Bakhtinian Laughter, and the Limits of Literary Judgment / Peter Quigley -- Foreword I: The Roots of Abbey's Social Critique / Edward S. Twining -- Foreword II: Magpie / SueEllen Campbell -- "I'm a humanist": The Poetic Past in Desert Solitaire / David J. Rothman -- Who Is the Lone Ranger?: Edward Abbey as Philosopher / David Rothenberg -- Nativity, Domesticity, and Exile in Edward Abbey's "One True Home" / Tom Lynch -- Rage against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought / Paul Lindholdt -- Edward Abbey's Inadvertent Postmodernism: Theory, Autobiography, and Politics / William Chaloupka -- Abbey as Anarchist / Harold Alderman -- "Getting the Desert into a Book": Nature Writing and the Problem of Representation in a Postmodern World / Claire Lawrence -- Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's Desert Comedies / Rebecca Raglon -- Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Edward Abbey / Steve Norwick --
• Edward Abbey's Cow / Barbara Barney Nelson -- Edward Abbey and Gender / Paul T. Bryant -- The Life of the Author: Emerson, Foucault, and the Reading of Edward Abbey's Journals / David Copland Morris -- From the Banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah: Edward Abbey as Noble Rhetorician / Bryan L. Moore -- Biocentrism and Green Existentialism: Edward Abbey's Conflicting Conceptualizations of Nature / Werner Bigell -- The Politics and Aesthetics of a Hopeful Anarchism: Edward Abbey's Postmodern "Angelic Demonology" / Peter Quigley -- The Politics of Leisure: "Industrial Tourism" in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / James A. Papa, Jr.

ISBN

0874805635 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98011872

OCLC

• 38288726
• ocm38288726

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries