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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"environmental writing"”.
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… movement as constituting America's first wave of environmental writing. The surge of scholarship in recent years produced by Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Steven Stoll, Benjamin Cohen, and Timothy Sweet (to name a few) has recovered the literary mode of the georgic and its agrarian foundation as …
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The Ghost Of Ravishment That Lingers In The Land: The Beginnings Of Environmentalism In Seraph On The Suwanee And Go Down, Moses
… and William Faulkner are recognized for their environmental writing. However, few scholars have acknowledged the sophisticated environmentalism present in Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and Faulkner's fictional depiction of Lafayette County in Go Down, Moses. This thesis seeks to prove that …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… remains a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All territory is finite, and any expansionism on finite ground is inherently unsustainable. Psychological analogy suggests that …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… remains a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All territory is finite, and any expansionism on finite ground is inherently unsustainable. Psychological analogy suggests that …
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… scholarship has begun to recognize the 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 …
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Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia
This is a nonfiction account of a twenty-four year-old woman from Ohio living in a small town in southern Chile in 2007. It is both her story of journeying to define that fickle four-letter word, home, and a depiction of contemporary history of the people and landscape of a remote and rapidly …
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Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia
This is a nonfiction account of a twenty-four year-old woman from Ohio living in a small town in southern Chile in 2007. It is both her story of journeying to define that fickle four-letter word, home, and a depiction of contemporary history of the people and landscape of a remote and rapidly …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… tout a new �restoration economy� and environmentalists seek more innovative ways to conserve open space and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, ecological restoration holds increasing cachet in many western states. To what extent do restorationists� visions align with the experiences …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… tout a new �restoration economy� and environmentalists seek more innovative ways to conserve open space and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, ecological restoration holds increasing cachet in many western states. To what extent do restorationists� visions align with the experiences …