Explorations in Ecocriticism - Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design

Informationen zum Autor By Paul Lindholdt Klappentext This book explores the range of ecocriticism. Purposefully it swerves into advocacy, anthropology, bioregionalism, environmental history, politics, rhetoric, visual arts, and other neglected areas that make for freer theorizing and more original critical designs. Zusammenfassung This book explores the range of ecocriticism. Purposefully it swerves into advocacy! anthropology! bioregionalism! environmental history! politics! rhetoric! visual arts! and other neglected areas that make for freer theorizing and more original critical designs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Edging toward Ecology in Early American Natural History Chapter 2: Literary Activism and the Bioregional AgendaChapter 3: West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in Washington TerritoryChapter 4: An Iconography of SabotageChapter 5: Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite ThoughtChapter 6: Overtures to Sublimity: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art CollectionChapter 7: American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement Chapter 8: Greening the Dramatic CanonChapter 9: Gifts and Misgivings in PlaceChapter 10: Restoring Bioregions through Applied CompositionNotesCreditsWorks CitedAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Paul Lindholdt, Lindholdt Paul
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9780739194980
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9498-0
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology