Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of EcocriticismKarla Armbruster, Kathleen R. Wallace Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained--until recently--closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace push well beyond that established framework with this groundbreaking collection of essays by respected ecocritics and scholars from the literary and environmental arenas. Together, their work signals a new direction in the field and offers refreshingly original insights into a broad spectrum of texts. |
Contents
An Ecocritic Reads Deuteronomy | 29 |
Chaucer and the Politics of Nature | 41 |
Creature Kinship and the Language | 57 |
A Reading of a Greenland Tale | 75 |
Discourses of Colonial American Natural History | 91 |
Botanical Discourse in Harriet Beecher | 111 |
Ecological Hardy | 126 |
Mary Wilkins Freemans Ecofiction | 162 |
Literary Place Bashing Test Site Nevada | 233 |
Language Literature and Natures Resistance | 248 |
SF and Ecocriticism | 263 |
Monstrous Natures in Recent Films | 279 |
Robert Frost the New England Environment and the Discourse of Objects | 297 |
The Poetry of Experience | 312 |
Rethinking Wilderness and Theater Spaces | 325 |
Virtual Landscapes Online in Print | 341 |
Michael S Harper | 177 |
AntiPastoralism Frederick Douglass and the Nature of Slavery | 195 |
Wild Wilderness Where There Was None | 211 |
Notes on Contributors | 357 |
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