City Wilds - Essays and Stories About Urban Nature

Informationen zum Autor TERRELL F. DIXON was one of the first teachers and scholars to focus on the literature of urban nature. Dixon is the author of numerous essays on ecocriticism and environmental literature and is coeditor of Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers . He teaches literature and the environment and ecocomposition at the University of Houston. Klappentext This anthology aims to broaden our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora! fauna! and geology that shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic conditions! the stories and essays include rivers! vacant lots and gardens as they show nature's disregard of city limits. Zusammenfassung This anthology aims to broaden our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora! fauna! and geology that shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic conditions! the stories and essays include rivers! vacant lots and gardens as they show nature's disregard of city limits.

Product details

• Authors: Terrell Dixon
• Assisted by: Terrell Dixon (Editor), Terrell F Dixon (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2002
• EAN: 9780820323398
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2339-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Die Natur: Sachbuch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Nature, NATURE / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General