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Informationen zum Autor Tom Lynch is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature. Susan N. Maher is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is coeditor of John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction. Klappentext Tom Lynch is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the author of Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature. Susan N. Maher is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is coeditor of John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction. Zusammenfassung Loren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher1. "The Bay of Broken Things": The Experience of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley Susan Hanson2. "Never Going to Cease My Wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo M. Catherine Downs3. "The Places Below": Mapping the Invisible Universe in Loren Eiseley's Plains Essays Susan N. Maher4. Unearthing Urban Nature: Loren Eiseley's Explorations of City and Suburb Michael A. Bryson5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay: Loren Eiseley's Representations of Animals Kathleen Boardman6. "The Borders between Us": Loren Eiseley's Ecopoetics Tom Lynch7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: Loren Eiseley's Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and "Two Cultures" Pedagogy Pamela Gossin8. Artifact and Idea: Loren Eiseley's Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow Mary Ellen Pitts9. The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley Jacqueline Cason10. In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption Anthony Lioi11. Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions Jonathan Weidenbaum12. Epic Narratives of Evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley Stephen Mercier13. Eiseley and Jung: Structuralism's Invisible Pyramid John Nizalowski14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted Dimitri N. BreschinskyWorks CitedContributorsIndex...
