Thoreau's Sense of Place - Essays in American Environmental Writing

Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the "green" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how "green", how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America?The contributors to this stimulating collection address the ways in which Thoreau and his successors attempt to cope with the basic epistemological split between perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature; related discussions involve the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place. They focus on the impact on Thoreau and his successors of culturally constructed assumptions deriving from science, politics, race, gender, history, and literary conventions. Finally, they explore the implications surrounding a writer's appropriation or even exploitation of places and objects.

Riassunto

The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Schneider
• Con la collaborazione di: Wayne Franklin (Editore), Richard J. Schneider (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Iowa Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2000
• EAN: 9780877457206
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-720-6
• Pagine: 340
• Dimensioni: 236 mm x 148 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 442 g
• Illustrazioni: 3 photographs
• Serie: American Land and Life; American Land & Life Series; American Land & Life Series; American Land and Life; American Land & Life
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese