In this heuristic study, I explore how four ecological writers, or wild writers, experience Nature. I identify with and participate in this inquiry because I am an ecological writer searching to understand my relationship to the natural world. That relationship begins in primary experience. The term "Nature" core to this exploration includes interactions of all dispositions of Gaia, organic and inorganic, human and not human, constructed by humans...

"This volume advances the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments, transcending national boundaries by addressing diverse regions. The forms of environmental criticism practiced converge with literary history, aesthetic theory, postcolonialism, and Marxism, broadening the ecocritical approach and providing a strong overview to this growing critical movement"--Provided...

Often when ecological problems and crises are discussed, it is in terms of scientific causes and solutions. What role then, do those who are not scientists have in helping to resolve ecological issues? Ultimately, human actions are the root cause of these situations and thus can be influenced through education. Ecological education hopes to influence the thought processes of students in order to create individuals who are more aware of their actions'...

Language, like culture, is interdependent with an ecology of place, and the language we use helps to shape our cultural understanding and ways of relating to these ecological places. This thesis explores the ways language, both written and oral, can weave us into the land, and perhaps, too, how land can weave us into language. "Land" in this thesis is referring to the ecological community within a place, and includes the perspective of interrelationship...

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...