Writing for an Endangered World
Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U. S. and Beyond
Edición de la obra Writing for an Endangered World
| Autor | Lawrence Buell |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 384 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674029057 |
| Número de Cutter | B928w |
"Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment - whether built or natural - as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, Buell reimagines city and country as a single complex landscape."--BOOK JACKET.