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Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond

Title
Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell.
Author
Buell, Lawrence.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.

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viii, 365 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  • "Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment - whether built or natural - as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention.
  • A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, Buell reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index.
Contents
1. Toxic Discourse -- 2. The Place of Place -- 3. Flaneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City -- 4. Discourses of Determinism -- 5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold -- 6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales -- 7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropo-centric Ethics versus Environmental Justice -- 8. Watershed Aesthetics.
ISBN
0674004493 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00049796
OCLC
  • ocm45202221
  • SCSB-4135020
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries