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Series
McFarland literary companion volume 2
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Critical animal studies volume Volume 4
Publisher
Brill Rodopi
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Series
Cairo papers in social science volume 26, no. 1, spring 2003
Publisher
American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
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...
Series
Options for teaching volume 22
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Steinbeck, intellectual soulmate of pioneering ecologist Edward F. Ricketts, developed a literary vision unique for its biological holism. From his exploration of the environmental disaster in the Dust Bowl region described in The Grapes of Wrath to his voyage of scientific and spiritual discovery among near-pristine marine ecosystems recounted in Log from the Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck's entire canon probes the multiple and interlocked dimensions...