ISBN: 9780874806489 - reading under the sign of nature: new essays in ecocriticism (6 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Used/Used This book is in very good condition. The cover is clean and the pages are crisp. In 1996 the ecocriticism reader appeared, a seminal work defining a then relatively new approach to literary criticism through the lens of environmental and nature studies. Reading Under the Sign of Nature is the first volume to demonstrate the practice of ecocriticism on a wide range of literary texts representing diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural perspectives. Twenty-two essays masterfully exhibit how a variety of ideas -- bioregionalism, feminism, Buddhism, postmodernism, and phenomenology -- can inform that practice. Included in this volume are critiques of prose and poetry by American writers that have long been in the literary and nature-writing canons, as well as interrogations of work by authors from Native American, African American, Occidental, and Far Eastern traditions. In this long-awaited anthology, a select group of scholars deftly employs the ecocritical approach on a valuable body of contemporary and traditional literature, evincing the rich possibilities for this form of inquiry without, as the editors note, "spinning off into obscurantism or idiosyncrasy". …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Softcover 2000 edition. Text and covers in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (368 pages).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Twenty-two new critical essays address a range of prose and poetry works on ecological themes by such familiar American writers as Walt Whitman and James Fenimore Cooper, as well as the work of lesser-known figures including Frank Waters and Josephine Johnson, and poets including Larry Eigner, Adrienne Rich, and Gary Snyder. Some pencil annotations; edge foxing. 368 pages.…