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Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, drawing on both the new field of ecosemiotics and pre-modern traditional cultures. It considers communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability and the new relevance of the humanities in environmental studies.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental Humanities
Part One: Backgrounds
Chapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Chapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for Ecosemiotics
By Timo Maran
Chapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject
By Cary Wolfe
Part Two: Medieval Natures
Chapter 5: "The Secret Folds of Nature": Eriugena's Expansive Concept of Nature
By Dermot Moran
Chapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints' Lives
By John Carey
Chapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages
By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Part Three: Re-Negotiating Native Natures
Chapter 8: The Yua as Logoi
By Fr Michael Oleksa
Chapter 9: Intersubjectivity with "Nature" in Plains Indian Vision-seeking
By Kathryn W. Shanley
Chapter 10: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: Smooth Rocks in a River Archipelago
By Katherine M. Faull
Chapter 11: Human Geographies and Landscapes of the Divine in Ibero-American Borderlands
By Cynthia Radding
Chapter 12: Call and Response: The Human/Non-Human Encounter in Linda Hogan's Solar
Storms
By Sarah Reese
Suggested Reading
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Alfred Kentigern Siewers - Contributions by John Carey; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Katherine M. Faull; Timo Maran; Dermot Moran; Michael Oleksa; Cynthia Radding; Sarah Reese; Kathryn W. Shanley and Cary Wolfe
