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Refiguring the map of sorrow : nature writing and autobiography

Title: Refiguring the map of sorrow : nature writing and autobiography / Mark Allister.
Author: Allister, Mark Christopher, 1956-
Publication: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

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Description

viii, 199 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.

Series Statement

Under the sign of nature

Uniform Title

Under the sign of nature.

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Contents

Writing the self through others -- Living the questions, writing the story : Sue Hubbell's A Country year -- An unnatural history made natural : Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge -- When all the world is cancerous : Bill Barich's laughing in the hills -- Constructing a self on the road : William Least Heat-Moon's Blue highways -- Pilgrimage to fashion a Zen self : Peter Matthiessen's The Snow leopard -- Making a home on the range : Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of open spaces and Western myths.

ISBN

0813920647
9780813920641
0813920655
9780813920658

LCCN

2001023547

OCLC

ocm46359352
46359352
SCSB-1237121

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library