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A major problem facing American modernist poets was how to accommodate poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. In this work, Robert Bernard Hass examines the ways in which conflict with science affected the development of Robert... Frost's career.
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By Elder, John
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A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal figure who is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist.
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Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as `the ecology of authorship': a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an e...arly ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic.
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Offers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this v...olume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.
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Considering unpublished materials and the full range of Mary Austin's literary and theoretical writing, this text presents Austin as a significant early 20th-century author who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democra...tic American culture.
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Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass.
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By West, Rinda
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In Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human nature. This book uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection,... and often breakdown.
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By Herring, Scott
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Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass.
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Explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with non-human others in this era of loss. Deborah Bird Rose asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth's systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these q...uestions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities.
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Postcolonial Green is an ambitious, accessible, and original volume that will help broaden and deepen a rapidly emerging field. The collection is intellectually innovative and admirably worldly. - Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin and au...thor of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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