Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives - Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada

Zusatztext "Quite expansive and thought-provoking . . . Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing Informationen zum Autor KYLIE CRANE is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mainz, Germany. Klappentext The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies. Zusammenfassung The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature! re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies. Inhaltsverzeichnis An(n)alogies of reading place: Aritha van Herk's Places Far From Ellesmere Go on the country, not on the map: Tim Winton's Dirt Music A 'calligraphy of landscape': Kim Mahood's Outback in Craft for a Dry Lake 'Line drifts between the opposing points': Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon 'Different shades of stripes': The Tasmanian Tiger and Julia Leigh's The Hunter Culture Nature Future: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An(n)alogies of reading place: Aritha van Herk's Places Far From Ellesmere Go on the country, not on the map: Tim Winton's Dirt Music A 'calligraphy of landscape': Kim Mahood's Outback in Craft for a Dry Lake 'Line drifts between the opposing points': Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon 'Different shades of stripes': The Tasmanian Tiger and Julia Leigh's The Hunter Culture Nature Future: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

Bericht

"Quite expansive and thought-provoking . . . Myths of Wilderness is a useful contribution to scholarship on wilderness writing." - Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Produktdetails

• Autoren: K Crane, K. Crane, Kylie Crane, Crane Kylie
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9781137000781
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00078-1
• Seiten: 235
• Serien: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment; Literatures, Cultures, and the; Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment; Literatures, Cultures, and the
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Environment, Society & culture: general, The environment, Media and Communication, Literary theory, World Literature, Environment, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature