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Title:
Nature & the environment
Author:
Slovic, Scott, 1960-
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2013.
Call Number:
PS169.E25 N38 2013
ISBN:
9781429837385

9781429837866
Series:
Critical insights

Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xiv, 354 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
On nature and the environment / Scott Slovic -- Critical contexts. Thoreau and American environmentalism : a study in critical reception / Richard J. Schneider ; Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral as reading strategies / Terry Gifford ; Environmental wisdom in two Mexican American novels : an ecocritical reading of And the Earth did not devour him and Bless me, Ultima / Priscilla Solis Ybarra ; Original nature : Buddhism and American nature writing / David Landis Barnhill ; Wordsworth as environmental "nature" writer / Ashton Nichols -- Critical readings. Walt Whitman, the ecological poet / M. Jimmie Killingsworth ; The return to the primitive : evolution, atavism, and socialism in Jack London's The call of the wild / Tina Gianquitto ; Cultivation, progress, or conservation : conflicting impulses in Willa Cather's O pioneers! and A lost lady / Matthias Schubnell ; The need of being versed in natural things : Robert Frost and nature / Robert Bernard Hass ; Natural history in Hemingway's The old man and the sea and other works / Bert Bender ; John Steinbeck's environmental evolution / Brian Railsback ; Robinson Jeffers, environmental consciousness, and the poetics of nature / David J. Rothman ; "Call me a ranger" : Edward Abbey and the exploratory voice of Desert solitaire / David Copland Morris ; Loyalty to place and land stewardship as ecological good work in Wendell Berry's The memory of Old Jack / Wes Berry ; Reciprocal spirituality : human/animal interface in Linda Hogan's multiple genres / Barbara J. Cook ; Prodigal summer : a narrative ecosystem / Priscilla Leder ; A natural alliance : blending nature literature and outdoor education in the integrated outdoor program / Jeff Hess.
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