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 | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 365 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674004493 |
| LCCN | 00049796 |
| 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.