Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing

Brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature.
What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the "character" of nonhuman nature? Dramas of Solitude brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature.
Through discussions of texts by Henry D. Thoreau, John C. Van Dyke, Wendell Berry, and student writers, among others, this book complicates social views of literacy with depictions of a solitude held in dynamic relation to a not-only-human community. It will inform the efforts of literary critics and writing teachers alike who hope to reintegrate English studies upon ecological terms.

About the author

Randall Roorda is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Product details

• Authors: Randall Roorda
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1998
• EAN: 9780791436776
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3677-6
• No. of pages: 283
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Suny Series, Literacy, Culture; Suny Series, Literacy, Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies