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

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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

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

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• Authors: K Crane, K. Crane, Kylie Crane
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9781349433421
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43342-1
• No. of pages: 235
• Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment; Literatures, Cultures, and the; Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; 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