Publication

2003-09-15 - Belknap Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivewritingforendang00buel
  • ISBN-100674012321
  • ISBN-139780674012325
  • Goodreads837970
  • LibraryThing1735083
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  • Better World Books9780674012325
  • Open LibraryOL7671010M

Classifications

  • LCCPS169.E25B84 2001
  • LCCPS169.E25 B84 2001
  • DDC810.9/355

Description

"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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Other Editions

  • Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and BeyondPaperbackBelknap Press2003-09-15

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