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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Nature Writing"”.
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Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry
This thesis reframes, or reforms, ‘nature writing’ (‘Nature Writing Reformed’) through the practical and theoretical recombination of human, tree, and page. Understandings of ‘writing’, ‘nature’, and their phrasal relation in ‘nature writing’, are explored through a sustained enquiry into the …
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… 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 dissertation argues that contemporary, racially-aligned divides and gaps in …
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Writing the Protected Landscape: Authenticity, the Creative Economy and the New Nature Writing
… landscapes and their relationship to fiction, nature writing and poetry. The research for this thesis has been conducted at a time when protected landscapes are under increasing threat from a multitude of pressures; housing development, organisational cuts in governmental funding and questions …
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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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Pressing the Seed: Thoreau's Rhetorical Strategies
… To analyze the shifting tones in Thoreau's writing, especially his more literary nature writing, I have singled out four common stances that he takes toward his material, depending on whether he emphasizes the story (a dramatic strategy), the storyteller (a narrative strategy), the setting …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
This practice-led PhD in Creative Writing consists of an historical, biographical novel called A Single Violet, and a critical commentary, Looking for Mary Webb. The novel is infused with nature writing and written in the form of a diary. The Shropshire writer Mary Webb (1881 -1927) published …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative non-fiction. The critical essay examines the work …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
… parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island provides context for Chapter 1, which demonstrates the fluidity of …
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HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN
… parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island provides context for Chapter 1, which demonstrates the fluidity of …
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Trespass
… in relation to the genre broadly called ‘new nature writing’ because I believe the majority of books in this field do not adequately confront the problems of privileged land ownership. This is an issue because these books play an important role in developing our narrative and social …
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Shoulder to the wind : a lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains
… series of personal and place-based essays in the nature writing tradition. While these lyrical essays arise from my own extensive engagement with the High Plains, they attempt an ecological perspective; they endeavour to write the High Plains over time and from multiple viewpoints, including those …
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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
… 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 him as a …
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Panography
… a synthesis) of the received binary of art and nature. Panography allows its readers to escape the filtered aesthetic of much literary nature writing, in which the process of artistic representation places nature itself in a subordinate position, fit merely for terror, sentimentality or pathetic …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… in film and music. My methodological writing strategy of plurality uses sources from oral history, archival methods, nature writing, theoretical analysis and cultural references to address the significance of the historical, geographical, social and meteorological contexts in which the …
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Parisian green spaces in the work of Guy de Maupassant from 1880-1886
… considered as early examples of what we now call nature writing, they can arguably be considered as relevant precursors to this movement in more contemporary French literature. Ultimately, these works show that Maupassant broke with the traditional image of Paris contre province and offered us …
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
… of the legitimization of the destructions of nature. In both Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, one encounters a significant problem regarding the female characters’ responses to and association with the natural world. Upon reaching a critical point of view in …
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Archipelago: a Literary Ecology of Heligoland and the Frisian Coast
… Drawing on psychogeography, memoir and the New Nature Writing to explore the relationship between the landscape and the cultures, literatures and languages which have developed there, I challenge, via my creative piece, homogeneous approaches to place-based writing and interrogate the narratives …
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The Sixth Creek
… Creek, and an exegesis The home as habitat: writing and protecting the local. The components of the thesis are intended to explore the concept of ecopoetry and how place-based poetry might function as environmental advocacy. The poetry of The Sixth Creek is entirely located within the …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of …
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