Screen LibraryWriting for an endangered world：literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 365 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0674012321 0674004493 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Call Number: | I712.06/B928 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index. Toxic discourse -- The place of place -- Flâneur's progress: reinhabiting the city -- Discourses of determinism -- Modernization and the claims of the natural world: Faulkner and Leopold -- Global commons as resource and as icon: imagining oceans and whales -- The misery of beasts and humans: nonanthropocentric ethics versus environmental justice -- Watershed aesthetics. 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, this book reimagines city and |