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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"American nature writing"”.
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… extensive environmental experience of African Americans during the nineteenth century, black-authored environmental writing from the era is conspicuously scant in studies and anthologies into the present, even in volumes devoted to ecocritically-inflected texts by authors of color. My …
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An Awakened Sense of Place: Thoreauvian Patterns in Willa Cather's Fiction
… similar environmental discussions through their writing, indicating that Cather deserves further attention as a nature writer. Because Thoreau is often identified as the father of modern nature writing, recognizing similarities between Cather and Thoreau further solidifies Cather's place within …
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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
… southern pastoral in the Virgilian mode, and to American nature writing. Graves's rhetorical strategies, including his appropriation of form, his non-polemical voice, his experimentation with narrative persona, and his utilization of traditional tropes of metaphor, metonymy, and irony, establish …